English Translation

0t - 5 - Newspaper "Posel ode Mže" (The Miesa Messenger), but the two beginnings soon faded away again. Only in the year l86o was the center of Czech culture in Pilsen, but also of public life the "Citizen Beseda" (Meštanská Besida) founded, which maintained this position until today. At the same time, the first Sokol unit was founded, and a new newspaper, which still exists today, although after several changes of name, "Plzeňské Noviny" (Pilsner Zeitung), founded in 1864, by Czech-national tendency, later renamed "Český Denik" (Czech Tagblatt), while the republic has become national-democratic, now leading in the sub-title "Blatt der NG". In 1868 Wenceslas T u s c h n e r became mayor, of which it is not clear whether he was German or Czech. After him only Czech mayors were, one of the most popular was Dr. Wenzel P e t á k (Petákplatz), who gained great merit for the spread of Czech education. His place during the world war took his former deputy Dr. Vladimir M a ndl, a national democrat who, after the overthrow, with the beginning of the triumphant march of Marxism, again had to make way for his deputy, the Jew and social democrat Ludwig Pik. He was forced to abdicate only during the time of the Second Republic, in his place came the agrarian government commissioner Peter N ě m e j c, who is still in office today. The formation of the Czech parties began immediately after the Czechs had victoriously ended their popular struggle. In 1873, the Social Democratic Party was founded, and in the next few years, its party paper "Nová Doba", which appears to this day and has not ceased to be a Marxist organ. In this context, it is only remembered that several editors are currently in detention. Social democracy celebrated a real victory only after the overthrow. During this time, the term "Red Pilsen" appeared. The city and its surrounding area became socially democratic, the Jewish-Marxist mayor Pik the favourite of the people, which incites for the most part only after the establishment of the