Wilstermann - History 1949

 THE CLUB

Our history dates back to the founding of the "Club Tennis LAB" (sic) at 18:25, on November 24, 1949, with the following directors:

- President Carlos Vargas C.

- Honorary President Alberto Estenssoro Alborta

- Honorary Vice President Edgar Pol P.

- Honorary Vice President Luis Zegarra

- Relations Secretary Oscar Gantier H

The second name of the institution was "Club Deportivo y Cultural LAB", so that in late January 1953, finally the Club Cultural y Deportivo Jorge Wilstermann was formed, under the impulse of the Manager of the institution Captain Walter Lehm, this is endorsed with the publication of date, February 6, 1953, in the newspaper Los Tiempos, who reported the following: "Employees and Workers of the Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano have organized the whose first management staff is as follows: Honorary President Commander Walter Lehm, Active President Jose Rico, Vice President Luis Mayorga, General Secretary Carlos Montan, Recording Secretary Sergio Perez, Treasurer Jaime Salazar, Sports Director Natalio Richter, Soccer Director, Enrique Ovando, Director of Basketball Alfonso Peñaloza, Director of Pelota de Mano Gualberto Orellana, Director of Tennis Roberto Cossío, Director of Swimming Jaime Barrero, Director of Boxing Walter Oporto, Director of Chess Rogelio Zubieta, Director of Table Tennis Percy Mac Lean.

Under the leadership of Roberto Prada Estrada, in 1955 the team became professional and between 1957-1960 it won the first and only tetra championship in the history of Bolivian professional soccer, under the impulse of an extraordinary group of players from Cochabamba, among them several who later became the basis of the South American Bolivian Soccer Championship, such as Renan López, Máximo Alcocer, Ausberto García, Mario Zabalaga, Cesar Sánchez, among others.

Primer escudo profesional

El primer escudo de nuestro equipo aviador, que distinguió al Club de 1949 a 1951 tiene una clara identificación con la línea bandera de la aviación nacional, el Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, y el equipo pertenecía a la división de fútbol y deportes del Club Deportivo LAB.