Sir leslie thiess biography of barack

Sir Leslie Charles ThiessCBE (8 April 1909 – 25 November 1992) was a construction and mining industry entrepreneur, based in Queensland, Australia.

Sir leslie thiess biography of barack

He was one of the founders of Thiess Bros, which later became Thiess Pty Ltd.^[1]

With a humble background, and one of eleven children, Thiess founded a contracting firm in 1933, in partnership with Henry Horn.^[1] Under his leadership, the company became a major contractor in Queensland and, when Horn retired in 1939, the firm became Thiess Bros.

It prospered from a succession of military engineering contracts during World War II, and Thiess and his four brothers formed Thiess Holdings in 1950. The firm was floated on the Sydney and Brisbane stock exchanges in 1958.^[1]

In 1968, Thiess was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)^[2] and, in 1971, he was knighted.^[3] After a hostile takeover by CSR in 1979, Thiess lost control of his company but, wi