Colonel Werner Fehr was a well-known personality within the Swiss equestrian community. He was president of the Swiss Horse Racing Association from 1929-51, was an instruction officer who was in charge of the cavalry schools of Aargau and Zurich, and also worked with acquisition and training of new horses. He was the son of the Swiss estate owner, a leader of the farmers’ association, and politician, Ernst Viktor Fehr, and later took over his father’s farming operations at Steinegg castle in the small town of Hüttwilen, where he eventually died. In 1910 Werner Fehr married Helene Ernst, daughter of a banker. His nephew Jörg Fehr represented Switzerland in the equestrian events at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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