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Ferdi Leisten collected ideas, concepts and the money to build the Jupp Schmitz fountain in downtown Cologne ...
... and for the Karl Berbuer fountain in the Severinsviertel.
Grave site in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne .

Ferdinand "Ferdi" Leisten (born March 2, 1914 in Cologne ; † May 6, 1995 there ) was a German entrepreneur and horse breeder . As President of the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee , he shaped the Cologne Carnival for many years.

Horse breeding

Ferdi Leisten junior was the successor to his father Ferdi Leisten senior owner of the oven house Leisten. He discovered his passion for thoroughbred breeding as early as the 1930s . In the last months of the Second World War he took care of the transfer of numerous breeding horses interned in Gotha to the West, including the entire stock of the Zoppenbroich stud . After the war he was largely responsible for the fact that racing on the horse racing track in Cologne-Weidenpesch could be resumed as early as 1946 . Together with Walther Bresges and Waldemar von Oppenheim , he laid the foundation stone for the later directorate for thoroughbred breeding and racing , in which he himself held offices for many years. From 1963 he worked for 31 years as an auctioneer at the Baden-Baden yearling auctions . His slogans (“Only I do Carnival”) ensured that “these auctions also offered exceptional entertainment in addition to being informative”. As president of the Baden-Badener Auktionsgesellschaft (BBAG) founded in 1988 , he pushed ahead with the construction of his own building for the auctions after a new parade ring had been built on the Iffezheim racing course on his initiative in the 1970s . From 1963 to 1979 he was President of the Property Association for Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing , and he served as chairman of the Breeding Commission in the Gallop Association. Leisten himself bred racehorses together with Margit von Batthyány , a sister of Heinrich Thyssen , at the Erlenhof stud in Bad Homburg . The Ferdinand Leisten Memorial has been held in Iffezheim since 2004 , the race for two-year-olds in Germany with the highest endowment of 200,000 euros.

Engagement in Cologne

Ferdi Leisten's father was a carnival prince in Cologne in 1927 . The son became a member of the Great Cologne Carnival Society and in 1946 President of the Honor Guard . In 1959 he was Prince Carnival himself . He was treasurer and vice president of the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee before he was elected President of the Festival Committee in 1963 to succeed Thomas Liessem . Ferdi Leisten held this office until 1973 when he was made honorary president. From 1954 to 1959 he was the leader of the Rose Monday procession . On his initiative, the Cologne factory schools were included in the Cologne Rose Monday procession and the former house of the Cologne Carnival was founded in Antwerpener Strasse. The Kölner Personen Lexikon writes about him: “He gave decisive impulses for the structure and professionalization of the carnival, for example in 1955 for the establishment of the 'Great Senate' and the 'House of Cologne Carnival with Local Museum'.” He also suggested monuments for Karl Berbuer and Jupp Schmitz and collected the necessary money.

Outside the carnival, the entrepreneur Leisten was involved in Cologne, among other things, in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Cologne trade fair . The Federal President awarded Ferdi Leisten the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . He was married twice and has two sons. His grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 12 in G).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turned the pages. epubli, p. 119 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b . epubli, p. 120 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b Celebrities from the Rhineland. cologne-info.de, accessed on November 8, 2015 .
  4. ↑ About us. Erlenhof stud, accessed on November 8, 2015 .
  5. ↑ List of winners. In: galopp-sieger.de. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Big Millowitsch Show in the Ferdinand Leisten Memorial. In: galopponline.de. October 16, 2015, accessed November 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ a b Detlef Rick: Melaten - graves tell history . Emons, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-789-0 , p. 98 .
  8. ↑ a b Wolfgang Oelsner in: Kölner Personen Lexikon . Ed .: Ulrich S. Soénius / Jürgen Wilhelm. Greven Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 320 .
personal data
SURNAME Last, Ferdi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leisten, Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, horse breeder and carnival president
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1995
Place of death Cologne