Many golf lovers know that our golf club is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year - Golf Club Prague was first mentioned in 1925. Here are a few interesting moments from its rich history.
The first application to register the club was submitted by Karel Dimmer, a lawyer living at Narodni 12, Prague 1, and it was addressed to the Police with the reference no. 443.452/1925. In the following month there was a lot of correspondence going on, not just with the Police, but also with the Ministry of Health and Physical Culture, with another reference no. 500.140ai1925. On 14th December, permission to form the association was granted, so on 7th April Mr. Dimmer announced the formation of the board of directors of Golf Club Prague. We should point out that this announcement was disputed under a law from 1867, from the period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, something to which the First Republic did not take very much.
The first board of directors seems very interesting too. The director was Jaroslav Jahn, the director of a factory in Smichov, the agent was Frantisek Ringhoffer, an industrial magnate, the cashier was Felix Lechner, a factory owner, and other board members were Dr. Karel Rösner, a wholesaler, Ing Berich Gross, residing in Vienna, Karel Dimmer and Sir George Clerk, the British Ambassador in Prague. The most famous name of all was Jan Garrigue Masaryk, the son of our first president and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The bureaucracy of the First Republic was enormous and it was not easy to set up the club.
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Published: 10/1/2006
