Albert Busek

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Albert Busek (born October 11, 1943 in Munich ) is an entrepreneur, sports official and one of the pioneers of bodybuilding in Germany. He was one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's early sponsors in the 1960s .

Life

Busek started muscle building training in the late 1950s. His greatest sporting success was winning the Munich city championship in powerlifting . Busek had studied engineering and on the side wrote and photographed for Rolf Putziger's bodybuilding magazines. After all, he worked full-time as an editor and later as editor-in-chief for Putziger's publications. In 1960 he first appeared as a sports official in the organization of championships. In the mid-1960s, he also managed Putziger's bodybuilding studio and mail order business. He was further co-founder of of Puck laid magazine Sport Revue , which was soon to develop into a leading German bodybuilding magazine.

In 1966 Putziger brought the still unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger to his studio in Munich as a trainer. Busek helped Schwarzenegger get used to the situation. When Putziger thwarted Schwarzenegger's previously agreed participation in the Mister Universe competition in London , Busek opposed his employer and managed to get Schwarzenegger to take part in his first international competition. In 1968 Busek and Schwarzenegger brought the Mister Europe competition to Munich. A friendship developed that would last for decades. Busek is considered one of Schwarzenegger's closest confidants. He was one of the witnesses when he married Maria Shriver .

As long-time president of the German Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (DBFV), the leading German bodybuilding organization, as well as publisher and editor-in-chief of several relevant bodybuilding magazines, Busek rose to become the most influential functionary of the German strength sports scene. Critics accuse him, however, of representing association interests too sustainably. In addition, Busek is assumed to promote or at least tolerate professional bodybuilding with the help of forbidden doping substances such as anabolic steroids , although he publicly speaks out against it. The professional bodybuilder Andreas Münzer died in 1996 of massive doping abuse while working at a Busek sports facility.

Busek sold his studio on Rosenheimer Strasse in Munich, which he opened in 1983 in the presence of Schwarzenegger, in 2004. In 1994 Busek received the Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

In June 2017, Busek retired as editor-in-chief with the current edition of Flex .

literature

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger / Douglas Kent Hall: Arnold. The education of a bodybuilder . Simon & Schuster, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-671-79748-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger / Douglas Kent Hall: Arnold. The education of a bodybuilder . Simon & Schuster, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-671-79748-5 , p. 50
  2. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger / Douglas Kent Hall: Arnold. The education of a bodybuilder . Simon & Schuster, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-671-79748-5 , p. 62
  3. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger / Douglas Kent Hall: Arnold. The education of a bodybuilder . Simon & Schuster, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-671-79748-5 , pp. 55ff
  4. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger / Douglas Kent Hall: Arnold. The education of a bodybuilder . Simon & Schuster, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-671-79748-5 , p. 69
  5. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger / Douglas Kent Hall: Arnold. The education of a bodybuilder . Simon & Schuster, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-671-79748-5 , p. 328
  6. ↑ Blond, strong and dead . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1996 ( online ).
  7. ↑ http://www.fitness-muenchen.com/sites-dt/ueber-uns.html
  8. ↑ https://www.team-andro.com/albert-busek-ruhestand.html

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personal data
SURNAME Busek, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bodybuilding functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich