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Pic. 39. From the left: 1. I. Maroši, 2.-3. unknown, 4. J. Vlčák, 5. Ľ. Závalec, 6. Ľ. Dobrovič, 7. unknown, 8. J. Makara, 9. M. Čadský, 10. J. Schrek, 11. M. Poliak and 12. unknown. Opočno, 1967.
Pic. 40. K. Bohatý gives the badge of honour to S. Doubrava. V. Pic. 42. Karel Bohatý, the chairman of the Falconers Club, is giving Jirkovský on the left, Marie Hůlková on the right – Opočno, 1968. the badge of honour to I. Maroši. V. Jirkovský on the left, M. Hůlková and Jiří Svoboda on the right – Opočno, 1968.
taking their badges of honour. S. Doubrava and I. Maroši were also among the awarded (pic. 40 and 41). The symbol chosen for the Falconers Club was a falconer depicted on a silver target from the era of Great Moravia. The native Pic. 41. The Falconers Club member´s licence of I. Maroši No. 3/1968.
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son of Přerov, Theo Maiwald, MSc., noticed the target in 1966 at an exhibition called “Great Moravia“ (Veľká Morava) in Vienna (Austria). He showed a replica of
Pic. 43. Falconers from the centre at VŠLD (Forestry and Lumbering University) in Zvolen. The flag is held by: Július Makara on the left, Maromír Morávek behind him and Helena Brtáňová on the right. Opočno, 1969.
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Pic. 44. Václav Jirkovský, MSc. in the year 1969 during the opening Pic. 45. From the right: film producer Hans Brehm, West Germany speech. Dr. Obhlídal on the left (in the back, with the tie) and Jiří (the great-grandson of the famous zoologist and author of The Life Svoboda, MSc. in front of him. Jiří Herold, L.D. alone on the right. of Animals) with the Golden Eagle; Siegfried Steindl, West Germany; Miroslav Čadský, Pardubice; Fritz Blumenberg and Karl Engelke, the target in the exhibition catalogue to guests from West Germany; Anton Moravčík, the contemporary president of the Slovak Falconers Club, with a hawk in Opočno, 1969.
Czechoslovakia – J. Svoboda and J. Herold at the falconers meeting from October 11-15, 1967 in Petronel, Since 1967, Opočno Castle had been the venue of Austria. At the same time, he suggested that they use the falconer’s motif as the club’s symbol on the member´s international falconers meetings, generally organised badge. The club’s prime officials agreed and thus, the by Václav Jirkovský, MSc., who later became the club’s chairman (pic. 42 – 46). Every meeting was attended club badge was born soon after.
Pic. 46. Being filmed by Jindro Vlach from Bratislava. From the right: Hans Jürgen and Wolfgant Gertl, West Germany; Marián Poliak from the Bratislava centre; the seventh in the line: Václav Svoboda, the later chairman of the Czech club; the eighth: Peter Husák and the ninth: Milan Privrel from the Bratislava centre in 1969.
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Pic. 47. Hans Brehm and Ivan Maroši, MSc.
by 120 to 150 home and foreign falconers from Europe, as well as from other countries of the world, like Mexico and the US in 1969. A highly treasured guest was, for example, the German film producer Hans Brehm (the great-grandson of the famous zoologist and the author of The Life of Animals), who not only came to the meeting in Opočno under the Orlické Hory mountains in 1969 with his Golden Eagle and a German pointer, but also attended the international falconers meetings in Nitra in 1973 and 1974 (pic. 47). Pic. 49. A commemorative badge.
Pic. 48. The historical first invitation to a hunt.
The first statewide international falconers meeting took place from October 22-26 in Opočno. For this occasion, the club had commemorative badges made. These, along with the official club badges, became precious souvenirs, especially for the participants from abroad (pic. 47 – 51). Pic. 50. The club badge with the motif of a falconer from Great Moravia.
Pic. 51. The ceremonial roll call of falconers at the Opočno Castle courtyard during the opening of the international falconers meeting in Czechoslovakia in 1969.
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The Renaissance of Falconry
Pic. 52. From the left: M. Mrs. Saar and Ch. Saar from West Germany, O. Witt from West Germany, an unknown, Árpád Virágh with his son from Hungary, H. Brehm from West Germany and two more from East Germany, 1969.
After the federal state constitution in 1969, the Cze- - the constitutional conference of the Slovak Hunting Association took place on June 21 and June 22, choslovak hunting organisation also became structured 1969 in Bratislava. according to the constitutional law of the Czechoslovak Federation. - the constitutional conference of the Czech Hunting Association took place on October 13th, 1969 in Prague. The activity and existence of the Czechoslovak Hunting Association ended on October 12, 1969. In After the agreement of the national hunting associaits place, two national associations were established: tions, a common coordinating and consulting institution
Pic. 53. From the left: I. Maroši, M. Androvič, Milan Ivan, Milan Hlivák, Ján Hudec and Jaromír Morávek, 1969.
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Pic. 12. From the left: Two participants from abroad and Milan Privrel Pic. 16. From the left: K. Engelke, M. Poliak, W. Gert, F. Blumenberg with a falcon from Bratislava. and H. J. Otte from West Germany.
Pic. 13. A falconry hunt with a pointer.
Pic. 17. From the left: Witt, Obhlídal, Říha, Jirkovský and his wife, Sochor, Blaha.
Pic. 14. The culminant tension before an attack.
Pic. 18. A banquet in the honour of the guests from abroad. M. Androvič over the Czechoslovak flag.
Pic. 15. Edy, the she-falcon (owned by M. Androvič) with a trawled Pic. 19. The participants from abroad. T. Krivjanský in the back, third from the right. hare.
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The Renaissance of Falconry
Pic. 20. From the right: Vojtech Hayden, I. Maroši, H. Brehm from Germany and his wife on the left and A. Virág from Hungary, Opočno, 1969.
Pic. 229. Participants of the falconers meeting at Opočno Castle in 1970.
Pic. 21. The falconers’ roll call before presenting the raptors in Opočno, 1972.
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