Gros (ODS): Prague 8 has other honorary citizens
Yesterday, the representatives of the Prague 8 district unanimously approved the granting of honorary citizenship to Mrs. Věra Čáslavská in memoriam.
Věra Čáslavská is still the most successful Czech Olympian of all births. She became a seven-time Olympic champion in gymnastics. She was also a brave woman who was not afraid to stand up to the communist regime.
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“She was born and raised in Karlín. Come with Karlín and her sports beginnings. In addition, this year we commemorate 80 years since her birth. On this occasion, we also unveiled a memorial plaque at her birth house in Sokolovský in Karlín, and I think that she clearly deserves the award of an honorary citizen of the city district, “explained the mayor of Prague 8, Ondřej Gros (ODS).
Other honorary citizens of the city district of Prague 8 for this year are: Mrs. Eva Foglová, long-term teacher, trainer and organizer in Sokol Libeň, Mr. Jaroslav Čvančara, Czech writer, publicist, pedagogue and musician and Mr. Josef Zumr, prominent philosopher, historian and literary scientist .
Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská is still the most successful Czech Olympian of all births. She was born and raised in Karlín. At the Olympic Games she won a total of 7 gold medals, she also won four world champion titles, won the European Championships 11 times and was named the best Athlete in Czechoslovakia four times in total. After the Velvet Revolution, she was chairwoman of the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee in 1990–1996 and also a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1995–2001. In 1968, she took part in political life and signed the Petition of Two Thousand Words. In 1971 she was expelled from the ranks of members of ČSTV. In 1974 she graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at Charles University in Prague and devoted her to coaching activities. Later, he was allowed to practice coaching in Mexico (1979-1981). In January 1990, she became an adviser to the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, Václav Havel, on social issues and sports, and from 1991 she worked as his assistant. Věra Čáslavská died in 2016.
Eva Foglová
Eva Foglová is a long-term teacher, trainer and organizer in Sokol Libeň. In the 1970s and 1990s, she was a physical education teacher at ZDŠ Zámeček, a promoter and trainer of modern gymnastics, jazz gymnastics and yoga in the extracurricular sections of the Libeň Sokol. Active as a trainer and organizer even after the renewal of TJ Sokol in the 90s until the beginning of the 21st century, her courses were passed by generations of exercisers of all ages, from girls to adult women to seniors.
Jaroslav Čvančara
Jaroslav Čvančara is a Czech writer, publicist, pedagogue and musician in the country group Taxmeni. During his life, he changed a number of professions – a boatman of the Prague Steamship Company, a boiler room operator, car body painter, promotional worker, pedagogue and researcher-historian. He is a researcher who deals with the assassination of Heydrich and related issues of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and related issues (Czech anti-Nazi resistance, Heydrichiad, extermination of Lidice, Operation Anthropoid, etc.), of which he has published three publications. co-author in the production of several documentary television, radio programs, films and exhibitions. He currently works as a researcher in the department of research of totalitarian regimes of the USTR, where he collaborates on the research project Czechoslovak Domestic and Foreign Resistance and the Nazi Occupying Power.
Josef Zumr
Josefu Zumr is an important philosopher, historian, literary scholar and historian. In 1952 he studied philosophy and Slavic studies at Charles University, and after a short stint as a publishing editor he joined the Institute of Philosophy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. During normalization, he was released and made a living as a freelance translator. He was readmitted in 1990, and briefly served as director of the institute. He also lectured externally at Palacký University in Olomouc. He is a full member of the Paris Institut international de philosophie and chairman of the board of trustees of the TG Masaryk Institute. He contributes to the Philosophical Magazine, Literary Newspapers and Analogon. He deals with the development of revolutionary democracy in the 19th century, the subject of his doctoral thesis was Alexandr Ivanovič Gercen. He also focuses on aesthetics, especially the work of Johann Friedrich Herbart (study If We Have Culture, Europe is Our Homeland, 1998). He organized a committee of Ladislav Klíma’s Second Seconds of Eternity (1967), Klím’s only book published under the previous regime. He was a member of the editorial board of Bohumil Hrabal’s Writings, he wrote the essay The Image of the Bull in the Work of Bohumil Hrabal.
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