Joh Bjelke-Petersen biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Author Name:

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Born As:

Johannes Bjelke-Petersen

Other Names:

Sir Johannes

Born:

13 Jan 1911

Died:

23 Apr 2005




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Politician                          
23 April 2005                                              
                                              
1968-1987 - Premier of Queensland                                              
The young Johannes suffered from polio, leaving him with a life-long limp. The family was poor, and Carl Bjelke-Petersen was frequently in poor health. Johannes and his mother Maren worked on the farm. Imbued with the strongly pietistic Lutheranism associated with the Danish immigrants of the area, Johannes was somewhat resentful of both his father and elder brother, whose sickliness and academic leanings meant that they left much of the work to him. Biographer James Walter has suggested that this resentment would feed Johannes' anti-intellectual tendencies in later life.