My whole life was over water
Christian Mayer, a.ka. Punťa, was born in 1923 in Prague-Podolí. He grew up in close contact with the Water Sports Club, which was founded by his father in 1924. During the Protectorate period, he studied a trade academy and a secondary technical school, and he was doing conscripted labour in a factory in Prague-Modřany which produced aircraft parts. He took part in the Prague Uprising. After the war he briefly worked in the State Bank and he did not join the Communist Party. Subsequently he worked for two years in the mine Fierlinger 2. He was working on the construction of the so-called Intelligence Bridge in Prague. His life-long hobby is water sports.