Céphas Bansah

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Céphas Bansah (2010)
Carving on Bansah's front door in Ludwigshafen - Mundenheim

Céphas Bansah , completely Togbui Ngoryifia Céphas Kosi Bansah , (born August 22, 1948 in Hohoe ) is king of the Hohoe Gbi Traditional Ghana group of around 206,000 inhabitants of the three million people of the Ewe in eastern Ghana , who have their permanent residence in Ludwigshafen - Mundenheim has.

He is thus at the head of twelve chiefs of the Volta region in Ghana.

biography

After his school education and successful completion of the pilot plant in his native Bansah came in 1970 under an international student exchange for Limburgerhof to there when Messrs. Paul Schweitzer training for agricultural machinery to complete -Mechaniker. At that time he lived in the Christian Youth Village in Limburgerhof. At that time he was an active amateur boxer and was 1975 in this sport district champion in the flyweight .

After completing his apprenticeship as a master mechanic for agricultural machinery and a master motor vehicle, Bansah gradually built up his current business, a car workshop, in Ludwigshafen-Mundenheim. After the death of his grandfather in 1987, his father, who was in line to the throne, and his brother Fridolin were out of the question, as both are left-handed and the left hand is considered unclean among the Ewe people. The tribal elders therefore determined him as king. After his coronation on April 16, 1992, the ruler stayed in Ludwigshafen. Today he employs three workers in his workshop and trains three apprentices.

In his spare time, Bansah manages his people via fax and email . In addition, he regularly drives to his people in Ghana, for whom he works through his non-profit organization “König Bansah Ghana Förderverein e. V. “Collects donations for aid projects. His projects also include the glasses donation campaign "Bring your old ones back!", Which has been carried out since 2007 together with New Line Optik GmbH and numerous opticians in Germany .

Bansah married in 2000 in Trittenheim the German graduate social worker Gabriele (full title: Mama Ngoryisi Amewonor I, Gabriele Akosua Bansah ), with whom he has two children: Carlo ( Prince Carlo Koku Bansah ) and Katharina ( Princess Catherine Akosua Bansah ).

Musical engagement

Bansah's house during the 2006 World Cup

According to its own information, Bansah has already released six CDs , for example a CD with O Tannenbaum in his mother tongue at Christmas 2005 and a CD with a football song called König Fußball for the 2006 World Cup in Germany in German in April 2006 . This song is also the official soccer anthem of his people.

Trivia

  • In 1999 the citizens of Trittenheim could not find a wine queen and therefore chose Bansah as their wine king.
  • In 2014 he took part in the fourth world championship in Mensch ärgere dich nicht in Wiesloch .
  • In 2014, while he and his wife were at an event, thieves broke into his home and stole various items including his four crowns.
  • On September 18, 2016, he was on the TV show Hard to believe! of the NDR as a guest.
  • In 2018, he donated a three-cell women's prison to his hometown.
  • He is a fan of the Werder Bremen football club .

Web links

Commons : Céphas Bansah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release (PDF; 119 kB) on koenig-bansah.de
  2. ^ Association for the benefit of children with cancer: Céphas Togbui Bansah - King of High Ghana A heart made of gold ( Memento from July 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on krebs-kranke-kinder.de
  3. ↑ King Bansah Ghana Förderverein e. V .: Donations on koenig-bansah.de
  4. ↑ Bring your old one back: Michelangelo's David delivers his old one, relaunch of Bring your old one back on blog.bring-your-old-back.de
  5. ↑ Céphas Bansah - As King in Germany on positiv-magazin.de
  6. ↑ The Royal Family on koenig-bansah.de
  7. ^ Claudia Kühner: Ruler in Overall - Auto Mechanic in Germany, Regent in Ghana , NZZFolio 05/94.
  8. ↑ Stern report on the 2014 World Cup in human beings don't get angry
  9. ↑ Article on Bansah at RT
  10. ↑ Hard to believe - Season 3, Episode 8 / 09/18/16 (HD). Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Article about the donation of a women's prison in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger
  12. ↑ BILD article about King Bansah as a Werder fan (PDF) on koenig-bansah.de
personal data
SURNAME Bansah, Cephas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bansah, Togbui Ngoryifia Céphas Kosi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian king of a group of around 200,000 inhabitants of the three million people of the Ewe in eastern Ghana
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohoe , Ghana