The article deals with the personality of Josef Scheiner as a Sokol official. It follows his activity in the Sokol organisation since the end of 1870s until the 1930s when Scheiner was a living Sokol legend. It perceives Scheiner's Sokol career crowned by the highest Sokol function - Mayor of Sokol in 1906. His career was topped off with the resistance during World War I and with the participation of the Sokol movement in the creation and consolidation of the Czechoslovak Republic during and after 1918.
The article emphasizes the importance of the social-democratic politician František Soukup on the road to the establishment of the independent Czechoslovak state. It describes his life before World War I as well as his career in the Social Democratic Party and his activities during the war conflict, when František Soukup became one of the main politician of the Czechoslavic Social Democratic Party.
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