Bro. Hynek Puc was born on 1 October 1856 in Benátky nad Jizerou (formerly Nové Benátky) in the family of shoemaker Josef Puc. He graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Mechanical Engineering in Prague. He worked as a machinist at the Edvard Lokeš and Son factory in Prague, making […]
Personalities of the Národ Lodge
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University professor František Nušl was born on 3 December 1867 in Jindřichův Hradec. After graduating from the local grammar school, he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at Charles University in Prague. He then taught mathematics and physics in Hradec Králové and Prague. František Nušl was the founder of the Ondřejov […]
Vilém Pospíšil, lawyer and financier, the first governor of the Czechoslovak National can certainly be considered among the founding personalities not only of the Czechoslovak state and its economy, but also of Freemasonry. He can rightly be seen as Rašín’s contemporary and successor in many respects. Vilém Pospíšil was born […]
Going through the list of Brethren, who were members of the Národ Lodge, we can also see a name of an architect that has resonated in my daily life as a boy from Zlín every day. One of the streets, where I spent my childhood, was named after him. I […]
Historian, diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Freemason. That is how the personality of Kamil Krofta, one of the important members of the Národ Lodge, could be described. Kamil Krofta was born in 1876 as a son of Josef Krofta, the first Czech mayor of Pilsen and a noted […]
Jan Syrový was one of the top army officers in Masonic circles. His Masonic activity was linked to the Národ Lodge, of which he became a member in 1926. Shortly after, he asked for a demit because of being lambasted by the Catholic press, only to be reaffiliated again in […]
Jiří Syllaba was born on May 8, 1902 in Prague. He studied medicine and right after graduation in 1926, he became an assistant at the Institute of Physiology of the Charles University in Prague. After 5 years, he stayed at the same university but switched to the 2nd Department of […]
The fraternal and spiritual life of Prof. Dr. Vladimír Wagner narrated by his son Michal Wagner My father Vladimír Wagner was born in 1911 in Brno in the family of a civil servant. During his youth and early adulthood, at the times of the First Czechoslovak Republic, the family economically […]
Ladislav Syllaba was born on 16th June 1868 in Bystřice u Benešova. In March 1892, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He was a pupil and follower of Josef Thomayer. After graduation, he underwent a long medical praxis in Bohemia and education programmes […]
The founding of the Národ Lodge 100 years ago would have never happened without an active initiator in the background, who never became its regular member. We can read various things about him from historical sources – politic, diplomat, journalist, writer. And also a Freemason of the Scottish Rite. His […]
The list of World War II casualties from the ranks of Národ Lodge members. Deceased Doc. JUDr. Vladimír Hora (died in prison in Brieg) JUDr. Zdeněk Chytil, publisher of the ‘Demokratický střed’ magazine (died in Terezín concentration camp) Ing. Ladislav Bartl (died in a concentration camp after the revolution) JUDr. Rudolf Buchtela […]