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Olaf Kier Olaf Kier, (c.1899 - 1986) was the founder of Kier Group, one of the United Kingdom's largest construction businesses. ==Career== Born and educated in Denmark as Olaf Kiaer,〔(''Ove Arup: masterbuilder of the twentieth century'' By Peter Jones ) Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-11296-2, Page 54〕 Olaf moved to England to pursue his career.〔(Kier Link )〕 Together with Jorgen Lotz, he founded Lotz & Kier, a construction business, in 1928.〔 The business name was changed to J.L. Kier & Co Ltd a few years later, after Lotz withdrew from the company. In 1941 he acquired the Lexham Hall Estate near Litcham in Norfolk but, in 1945, when he saw the condition that the Army had left it in, decided to put it back on the market.〔(Lexham Estate )〕 He instead acquired the Cokenach Estate near Barkway in Hertfordshire.〔Cokenach Cricket Club website (History: The Later Years ) Retrieved 2011-10-11〕 In 1965 he established the Olaf Kier Danish Charity.〔(Olaf Kier Danish Charity )〕 He was a member of the Danish Club at 62 Knightsbridge〔 and was awarded made CBE for industrial and social services in 1970. He died in a motor accident in May 1986 aged 87.〔
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