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Peter Gottlob (* 1938 in Rumburk ) is a German strength athlete , bodybuilder and entrepreneur . He founded one of the first German bodybuilding studios and was a German bodybuilding master.

Gottlob attended school in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and learned the profession of hotel clerk . He graduated from the Belvoirpark Hotel Management School in Zurich . He then studied art at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart for a few semesters . While traveling to Paris he got to know the strength sports scene there. In 1959 he visited Harry Gelbfarb's studio in Schweinfurt , which he had founded three years earlier as the first bodybuilding studio in Germany . On September 15, 1959, Gottlob founded his "Institute for Bodybuilding". After Gelbfarb and Poldi Merc , Gottlob is considered the founder of the third bodybuilding studio in Germany. In the following two decades, Gottlob expanded and ran numerous studios in Stuttgart and other German cities. Werner Kieser obtained valuable tips from Gottlob in 1963 for his own entry into the studio business. Gottlob sold the last studio in 1983 to develop and sell his own fitness equipment. With the company "Galaxy Sport", Gottlob brought devices for bodybuilding, fitness and rehabilitation onto the market and thus competed with established providers such as Nautilus . They were distributed in Europe, the USA and Asia. Thank god Galaxy Sport sold in 1992.

In 1960 Gottlob organized the first Stuttgart championship as the first official bodybuilding championship ever in Germany. In addition, Gottlob organized a European championship with the title "Best Build Athlete". At the second event in 1965, Arnold Schwarzenegger won his first bodybuilding title as "Mr. Europe Junior". Gottlob organized the first German championship in powerlifting in 1964. In the following years, in addition to Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbu and well-known German weightlifters took part.

In 1967 Peter Gottlob became German bodybuilding champion, after he had already achieved third place at the European championship in 1961. At the age of 67, Gottlob achieved fourth place in a stone lifting competition in Munich with a weight of 254 kg . One of Gottlob's students was Jusup Wilkosz , the most successful German bodybuilder of all time as double world champion. Gottlob's son Axel became German bodybuilding champion in 1982.

literature

• Peter Brügge : Everything is wide , in: Der Spiegel 50/1962, p. 65 f.
• Erika Dilger: The fitness movement in Germany , Hofmann, Schorndorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7780-4640-1
• Werner Kieser : The discovery of iron: Stations of my life , Econ, 2008, ISBN 978-3430200479 , p. 82f
• Rolf Putziger : Stuttgart was worth the trip. The competitions for the title Best Build Athlete 1965 , in: Kraftsportrevue 19/1965, pp. 18–20, pp. 27–36
• Rolf Putziger: 15 years of weight training in Germany , in: Kraftsportrevue 42/1968, pp. 6–9, 26
• o. V .: 50 years of praise in the fitness industry , in: Fitness Tribune, 121/2009, pp. 50–61, (PDF; 1.1 MB)

Web links

• Klaus Eichmüller: "50 years of muscle cult in Stuttgart: Schwarzenegger's muscle game" (Stuttgarter Nachrichten)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harry Gelbfarb: The roots of bodybuilding in Germany, in Sportrevue 300/1993, p. 142
2. ↑ Werner Kieser: The discovery of iron: stations of my life. Econ, 2008, ISBN 978-3430200479 , pp. 82f
3. ↑ Erika Dilger: The fitness movement in Germany, Hofmann, Schorndorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7780-4640-1 , p. 258ff
4. ↑ Erika Dilger: The fitness movement in Germany, Hofmann, Schorndorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7780-4640-1 , p. 343ff
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger / Douglas Kent Hall: Arnold. The education of a bodybuilder. Simon & Schuster, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-671-79748-5 , pp. 56f
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ One room is now enough for Mister Universum ( Memento from January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Stuttgarter Zeitung from March 27, 2009