LEGO Historian Posted July 13, 2012 Posted July 13, 2012 On July 13, 1995 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen... breathed his last. That was 17 years ago today. He was the son of LEGO founder Ole Kirk Christiansen, and the father of current LEGO principal owners Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen and Gunhild Christiansen Johansen. Here is a 1957 image (from my LEGO collectors guide DVD) of the Christiansen brothers and their father (in the middle) Ole Kirk Christiansen. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, who ran the company for many decades after his father's death at 67 in 1958, is on the right.... And here is the Christiansen family plot... with Ole Kirk in back, Godtfred Kirk in front of him, and Godtfred Kirk's tragic daughter Hanne (who died in 1969 at 20 of a tragic car accident) in front of that.... Ironically... when Godtfred Kirk was still alive... he didn't know that one day the company would have a huge following of AFOLs... Quote
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