Career
Biermann"s father, joined the Orange Free State postal service at the age of 12 and later joined the Société Anonyme Railways and Harbours as a telegraphist. Biermann was one of four children. Before the outbreak of World World War II he was a teacher at Highlands North High School in Johannesburg.
This gave rise to his nickname "Chips" after the schoolmaster Mr Chips.
Biermann died at the age of 84 at a retirement home, Silvermine Village, near Cape Town.
