Willi Dungl

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Willi Dungl monument in the spa gardens of Gars / Kamp

Willi Dungl (born July 17, 1937 in Vienna ; † May 1, 2002 in Horn , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian health expert. He looked after top athletes and founded the organic training center in Gars am Kamp . Willi Dungl wrote numerous books on this subject, which earned him the nickname of fitness pope.

Career

Willi Dungl first began an apprenticeship as an iron wholesaler and, after completing his medical sergeant school with the Austrian Armed Forces, went self-employed as a masseur in 1965. In 1970 he became head of the professional training courses for masseurs at the WIFI in Vienna. He also founded his own massage school for commercial and therapeutic masseurs. Since 1969 - long before the law on therapeutic masseur was changed - it offered extensive training in line with today's standards.

Elite sport

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , he was a member of the international physics support team. His reputation as a health expert grew, and he was responsible for numerous top athletes as Fitness - Coach as Niki Lauda , or tennis Steffi Graf , Thomas Muster , but other figures such as the former Federal President Kurt Waldheim .

1973 to 1980 Dungl was responsible for looking after the Austrian national team at the Olympic Games and World Championships. He became known far beyond Austria, above all for looking after Formula 1 drivers such as John Watson , Gerhard Berger and Patrick Friesacher . Together with his daughters, (* 1961) Andrea Zauner-Dungl, (* 1964) ´Claudia Dungl, and students, he temporarily looked after half the starting field with Ayrton Senna , Jacques Villeneuve , Mika Häkkinen , Michael Schumacher , Michele Alboreto and Nico Rosberg .

Opening of "Lebensbilder" (1996), mural using tile technology, Willi Dungl Biotrainings Center, Gars am Kamp. Helmuth Gräff (left) with Günter Stummvoll and Willi Dungl

Entrepreneur

In 1986 Willi Dungl founded his biotraining center in Gars am Kamp , which his daughter continued to operate from his death until it was closed in 2011. At this location, VAMED opened the la pura women's health resort Kamptal in summer 2011 .

Teas , fruit and vegetable juices , mueslis and body care products are sold under the brand name Willi Dungl .

death

Gars am Kamp, grave of Willi Dungl

Dungl died on May 1, 2002 in Horn and was buried in the family grave in the cemetery of Gars am Kamp. The funeral service in the spa gardens of Gars am Kamp was chaired by Protestant superintendent Paul Weiland and Catholic pastor Hans Denk, Governor Erwin Pröll and Palmers boss Rudolf Humer, a friend of Dungl, held the funeral speeches.

Honors

In 1985 Willi Dungl was given the professional title of Professor .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Surprising diagnosis, Graf criticizes. In: welt.de . June 11, 1997, Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://archiv.rhein-zeitung.de/on/97/06/12/sport/news/graf.html
  3. ↑ http://www.manager-magazin.de/magazin/artikel/a-57695.html
  4. ↑ ORF , noe.orf.at 20 years of biotrainer “Made in Gars” from February 25, 2017, accessed on October 19, 2017
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Andrea Zauner-Dungl is head of therapy at the Dungl Center Vienna and head of the Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine & Complementary Medicine at Danube University in Krems
  6. ↑ Mag. Claudia Dungl is the managing director of the Dungl Center Vienna
  7. ↑ noe.orf.at HEALTH - Dungl Hotel became women's health center , from April 11, 2012, accessed on October 19, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Dungl, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian wellness guru
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2002
Place of death Horn , Lower Austria