Abstract
The text is focused on the mayor of Poděbrady Spa Josef Caňkář (1889-1975). His social origin and the profession of a teacher made him a typical member of Czechoslovak National Socialist Party.
Most of the inter-war mayors of Czech towns were occupied by the members of this party; their careers (as in Caňkář's case) were usually interrupted by the Nazi occupation in 1939 and again by the Communist coup in 1948.