Rolf Leeser (4 June 1929 – 21 March 2018) was a German-born footballer who played for
Ajax in the Netherlands from 1948 to 1954.
Biography
Leeser, born in
Essen
Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...
on 4 June 1929,
was of Jewish descent.
He joined the Ajax youth academy at the age of 12, and made his first professional appearance for the club on 19 September 1948. Leeser became a regular during the 1951–52 season, and continued to play until April 1954, scoring six goals in 34 total appearances for the club over the course of his career.
Outside of football, Leeser was a fashion designer. He founded Leeser B.V., a women's fashion chain,
and contributed to the redesign of the Ajax logo, which has been in use since 1990. He died on 21 March 2018, aged 88.
Lesser was married to jurist Anita B. Leeser-Gassan.
References
1929 births
2018 deaths
AFC Ajax players
Footballers from Essen
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands
Men's association football forwards
Dutch men's footballers
Dutch fashion designers
Logo designers
Dutch people of German-Jewish descent
Jewish footballers
Dutch company founders
Jewish fashion designers
German fashion designers
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