April 8, 1891 saw the birth of Ole Kirk Christiansen who founded a company whose name means either play well in Danish or I put together in Latin. What company are we talking about?
Ole Kirk Christiansen homemade wine. He won it himself. Lego is a shortened form of the Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well", and the company grew to become The Lego Group. On 11 March 1958, Christiansen died from a heart attack at the age of 66, and his third son Godtfred promptly took over the company. Ole Kirk Christiansen Ole Kirk Christiansen (7 April 1891 – 11 March 1958) was the founder of the Danish construction toy company The Lego Group. Christiansen was born in , Denmark, the 10th son of an impoverished family in Jutland. He trained as a carpenter and
Ole Kirk Christiansen the new toy and decided to put the ducks into production, using the leftover wood from his old business. In 1942, a fire broke out at the factory, forcing them to rebuild. Initially, he made miniature versions of the houses and furniture as he worked on as a carpenter, but in 1947 moved to using plastics, which were originally small plastic bears and rattles. By 1949 he had produced over 200 plastic and wooden toys. Ole wanted a name for the group. In 1934 he launched a competition to name the company. The prize was a bottle of his own