04 April, 2011

Sir Frank Lampl 1926-2011

Frank Lampl was Chairman of Bovis, the construction firm in the 1980s and 1990s. I knew him quite well for a time.

He had been imprisoned in Auschwitz and Dachau as a teenager, and then was forced to work in Stalin's uranium mines after the war. It was only recently I found out that he took medicine every day to keep the nightmares at bay.

He escaped to England, joined Bovis and made it to the top.

I never knew anyone who didn't like him. He was very decent to me, a junior manager in a bank, when he really didn't need to be.

Good guy

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