Abstract
The present article deals with the stages of origin and explanation of an eight-arm swastika which was found in a rock face near Dubá and which is one of the types of the Turner cross. From the initials of Turner motto "Frisch, frei, fröhlich, fromm", propagated by "Turnvater" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the Turner Cross was derived by Heinrich Felsing.
However, in the "völkisch" Austro-Hungarian gymnastic union "Deutscher Turnerbund" (DTB) this cross was substituted with a symbol better corresponding with the union's world view - a mamber of this union, Ernst Strach, created from four F an eight-arm swastika. He inspirated himself to do this by the fylfot which was becoming more and more popular in the "völkisch" movement and explained as a symbol of sun.
From the DTB the sign was taken over in 1920 by Czechoslovak gymnastic union "Deutscher Turnverband" (DTB). One of its members was probably creator of the cross on the rock near Dubá.
It would however be false to consider the DTv since the early 1920s - on the basis of mere resemblance between this cross and the Nazi swastika - a vanguard of german rightwingers in Czechoslovakia.