Siegmund Klein

Siegmund Klein, known as Sig Klein, born on April 10, 1902, and died on May 24, 1987, was a German-American strongman, bodybuilder, magazine publisher and gymnasium owner prominent in physical culture. He was born in Toruń, Germany, now within Poland, and his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, a year later. He began weight training at age 12 with improvised window counterweights. In 1924 he arrived in New York City and took over a gymnasium previously owned by Louis Attila, whose daughter Grace he later married, and in 1926 he opened his own gym, the Physical Culture Studio, which became one of the best known gyms in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s and hosted many photo shoots for Joe Weider's magazines. He was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 2006.