Walter Klock

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Walter Klock (born September 20, 1930 in Schlawe / Pomerania) is a pioneer and former functionary of German bodybuilding.

Klock is considered to be one of the most successful bodybuilding trainers of the 1980s and 1990s, was a national sports advisor and sports supervisor for the German national team, president of the Hessian Bodybuilding and Strength Sports Association (HBBKV) and vice-president of the German Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (DBFV). He is also the holder of the Golden Badge of Honor of the DBFV and the silver medal of the International Federation of Bodybuilding & Fitness (IFBB).

He organized large events such as the German Bodybuilding Championships in 1990 and 1991 in Frankfurt am Main, the European and World Championships for Juniors / Seniors in 1986 and 87 in Rüsselsheim and Gießen, as well as more than fifty other championships in Germany.

In 2002, Klock retired from association work.

Klock fitness center

Walter Klock originally learned the trade of electrical machine builder. After conducting its own corporate chain with catering and textile plants in Darmstadt more than two decades, he opened in November 1977 in the Hessian Pour the fitness center Klock first health club in the region. Since the terms bodybuilding and fitness were still largely unknown in the late 1970s, there was initially no demand. After just one year, however, the response to the "Sportstudio" was so high that there was a lack of space for new members to be accepted. By the mid-eighties, Klock and his sons opened four more fitness studios in Gießen, Wetzlar and Butzbach.

In 1981 Walter Klock joined the budget of the German Bodybuilding and Fitness Association with his fitness studio , which marked the beginning of the association's work and as a result the Klock fitness center should develop into one of the most successful studios in Europe. The Klocksche muscle forge became the center of a growing scene and nationwide contact point for competitive athletes, so that in its heyday up to 30 athletes for the "Klock Body Team" took part in various competitions. Numerous German, European and world champions in the amateur field, as well as later professionals such as Frank Hillebrand and Günter Schlierkamp, emerged from here. By the time the fitness studio was sold in 1999, the Giessen athletes had 155 first and 110 second placements, including 28 overall victories.

Bodybuilding official

In 1984 Walter Klock was appointed to the national board of the German Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (DBFV) after he had already been elected to the head of the Hessian Bodybuilding and Strength Sports Association . From 1984 to 1990 he took over the post of federal sports advisor and was thus the supervisor of the national team. During this time, the German athletes won a total of 35 world titles. Klock and the team visited many countries, including the Soviet Union on the occasion of the European Championship in St. Petersburg in 1990. In 1985 the DBFV awarded him the Association's Golden Badge of Honor.

With Walter Klock as chairman of the Hessian Bodybuilding and Strength Sports Association, the state association also developed into one of the best-functioning and most successful of its time. In his name, Klock organized the world championships for juniors and seniors in Rüsselsheim and Gießen in 1986 and 87. The latter brought a record number of 25 national delegations. In November 1986, at his request, the DBFV organized the very first International German Bodybuilding Championship in the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt am Main. In 1990 and 91 the Hessian regional association then hosted the 31st and 32nd German bodybuilding championships at the same location, which took place outside of Munich for the first time.

In 1990 Walter Klock received the silver medal of the world association from the co-founder of the International Federation of Bodybuilding & Fitness , Ben Weider, in Florida for his services . After his time as a national sports officer, he held the office of Vice President of the German Bodybuilding and Fitness Association from 1993 to 1999.

today

In September 1999 Walter Klock sold the "Fitness-Center Klock", which was continued by the new owners until it was finally closed in 2009, and in 2002 also withdrew from association work. Today he is Honorary President of the Hessian Bodybuilding and Strength Sports Association and an honorary member of the federal board of the German Bodybuilding and Fitness Association

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Busek : Editorial, in: Sportrevue (8) 1990, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Unknown author, Bodybuilding around the Klock. Hesse's "father of bodybuilding" and his enormously successful talent factory - the Klock fitness center in Gießen, in: Flex (11) 2001, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Michael Petry, A Day in the Life of Walter Klock. A sportsman around the clock, in Sportrevue (10) 1989, p. 120.
  4. ↑ Unknown author, Bodybuilding around the Klock, p. 11.
  5. ↑ Michael Petry, A Day in the Life of Walter Klock. A sportsman around the clock, in Sportrevue (10) 1989, p. 121.
  6. ↑ Unknown author, Bodybuilding around the Klock, p. 10.
  7. ↑ Honor roll of the amateur world champions from 1979 by DBFV eV / IFBB.
  8. ^ Albert Busek : Editorial, in: Sportrevue (6) 1990, p. 4.
  9. ^ Message, in: Sportrevue (2) 1988, p. 7.
  10. ↑ Gerd Maurer, 32nd German Bodybuilding Championship. 10-11 May 1991 Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt-Höchst, in: Sportrevue (8) 1991, p. 272 ​​ff.
  11. ^ Wistful farewell to the cradle of strength sports. In: Gießener Allgemeine , September 13, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Klock, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bodybuilder
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlawe , Pomerania