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Re: More esoteric Lego history
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Sun, 5 Jun 2005 06:43:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Eric Strand wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Jim Hughes wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > With so many excellent recent Lego history posts I thought I would
> > add my own 2 cents. This is information I have dug up while
> > working on a Lego history website. My review of early Lego history
> > has allowed me to construct a fairly complete family tree:
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> > Kirk Christiansen Family Tree
> >
> > Ole Kirk Christiansen
> > b. 1891 Filskov, Denmark
> > d. 1958 Billund, Denmark
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> > m. Kirstine Sörensen of Normay, approx 1916
> >
> > they had 4 children:
> > Johannes (b. 1917),
> > Karl Georg (b 1919),
> > Godtfred (b. 8 Jul 1920)
> > Gerhardt (b. 1926)
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> > If anyone has any additional information or corrections let me know
> >
> > --Jim
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> More information on Karl Georg and Gerhardt and their company BILOfix here:
> http://www.bilofix.com/history.htm
> Eric
Ya know, Eric told me about this a while ago. And with Jim mentioning the 4 sons of Ole Kirk Christiansen again. Well it got me to wondering about the family twist to TLG. I mean here we have Ole Kirk, who died in 1958 leaving his 3rd oldest son (GKC) in charge. Hmmmm, sounds like a recipe for family discord. It is no wonder that 2 of GKC's brothers left the company in the early 60's. Does that mean that the billionaire Lego family mentioned in Forbes Magazine only covers the descendants of 2 out of 4 brothers, since the others went to form the shortlived BILOfix company, and perhaps are the poorer cousins to the other two family branches?
And with the 3 children of GKC... they started showing up on Lego boxes for the
first time in 1953 (that picture in THE ULTIMATE LEGO BOOK and WORLD OF LEGO
TOYS), when KKK (about 5 1/2 years old at the time) and his older sister first
showed up. By 1955 all sets (with the exception of model sets, garage sets, and
1:87 cars/trucks) had Ole Kirk's grandchildren (from GKC) on the box tops of all
basic sets and parts packs until 1960.
Jim, in your original post, did you mean that KKK's older sister is the one that
died in a 1969 accident? Or that both sisters were older. In Eric Strand's
picture (the one that Dave Shifflett is questioning :-) I think it clearly shows
that one sister is older and one is younger.
Thanks for posting this info Jim! It sure does beg a lot of questions, doesn't
it?
Gary Istok
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| (...) Yeah, every new fact I uncover raises many new questions, my head may explode eventually. I originally thought that both sisters were older than KKK but Dave has sent me a high-resolution copy of the image above and it is clear that one sister (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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