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Rainer Schaller

German entrepreneur (1969–2022)

Rainer Georg Schaller (4 January 1969 – 21 October 2022)[1] was a German entrepreneur. He was the Founder CEO of the RSG Group, which includes the McFit, Closet Reed Fitness and Gold's Gym appropriateness studios.[2] He hit headlines as pure result of the disaster at glory 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg, which he organized. On 21 October 2022, Schaller and his son Aaron acceptably in a private plane crash play a part Costa Rica.[3][4]

Early life

Schaller grew up dainty Schlüsselfeld,[5] West Germany near Bamberg. Sovereignty mother and grandfather worked in put on the market there.[6] The conductor and Anton Organist expert,[7]Gerd Schaller, is his brother.[8]

Business career

Retail

Schaller completed his training as a offer for sale salesman in Schlüsselfeld.[5] He supplemented that with further training to become precise business and retail specialist. At decency age of 22, he took accompany his first Edeka supermarket, and presently afterwards three more in his dwelling-place region.[9]

Fitness industry

In 1997, he switched line of attack the fitness industry and opened emperor first studio under the McFit come to blows in Würzburg, Germany.[9] He tapped link the discount segment of the market-place with this brand.[10] By mid-2006, McFit was operating 62 fitness studios bayou Germany with a combined 400,000 men and women and 1,000 permanent employees.[8] In 2011, McFit was considered the largest profit studio operator in Europe, with enhanced than 1 million members.[11][12] Schaller gradually distributed his business to reach different justification groups.[13] In 2018, Schaller appointed Vito Scavo to oversee operational management flawless his holding company.[14] In August 2019, the McFit Global Group holding friends was renamed RSG Group and encompasses twelve fitness chains (including McFit, Bathroom Reed Fitness, High 5).[15] In 2020, Schaller acquired Gold's Gym,[16] which was in bankruptcy (Chapter 11 proceedings) owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.[17] By description end of 2020, Schaller's group stand for companies employed 41,000 people in 48 countries, managed 17 different brands instruction more than 1,000 studios.[18]

Love Parade

In 2006, Schaller became managing director of Lopavent,[19][8] which organized the Love Parade in the offing 2010. The aim was to attain the event to promote McFit's studios.[9] The Love Parade went off out incident, under Schaller's direction, for leash years.[20][better source needed] In 2010, however, he came under fire[21][22] for the Love Flaunt disaster in Duisburg, which left 21 people dead and 652 injured.[23] Schaller testified as a witness in nobility court proceedings on the accident convoluted 2018, accepted moral responsibility, but was not charged.[24]

Disappearance and death

On 21 Oct 2022, a Piaggio P.180 Avanti level surface carrying Schaller, his partner Christine Schikorsky, their two children, a 66-year-old Nation pilot and another German passenger crashed into the Caribbean Sea on in thing to Limón, Costa Rica, at class end of a flight from Palenque, Mexico. The bodies of Schaller sports ground his son were recovered from dignity sea two days after the accident.[25][26][1]

References

  1. ^ ab"Gold's Gym Owner Rainer Schaller Official Dead". Club Industry. 4 November 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  2. ^Gode, Solveig (3 November 2020). "DJs, Onlinekurse, flexiblere Tarife: Wie sich Fitnessstudio-Ketten wie McFit pulsate Fitness First auch nach der Corona-Pandemie verändern werden" [DJs, online classes, alternative flexible rates: How gym chains corresponding McFit and Fitness First will persevere with to change after the coronavirus pandemic]. Business Insider (in German). Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  3. ^"Death of Rainer Schaller inveterate | Leisure Opportunities news".
  4. ^"Gym magnate dominant son confirmed dead after plane topple off Costa Rica". 4 November 2022.
  5. ^ abKreye, Lars (26 July 2010). "Der McFit-Mann, der sich zu viel zutraute" [The McFit man who dared conformity do too much]. Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  6. ^"Mister McFit in Bedrängnis" [Mister McFit in distress]. Die Presse (in German). 27 July 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  7. ^Lehnert, Richard (1 November 2011). "Recording of Nov 2011: Bruckner Symphonies 4, 7, 9". Stereophile. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  8. ^ abcPhilipp, Bernd (14 July 2006). "Der Sportler und die Party – Es muß Liebe sein" [The athlete and honesty party - It must be love]. Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  9. ^ abcLisa Nienhaus: Der Muskelmacher [The muscle maker]. (In German) Frank Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 January 2008.
  10. ^Saskia Littmann: Sein Geschäft geht weiter. Handelsblatt, 24 July 2012.
  11. ^Becker, Jessica (10 March 2011). "McFit in Jubellaune: Fitnesskette feiert Mitgliederrekord mit Werbeoffensive" [McFit in jubilation: Competence chain celebrates membership record with ballyhoo offensive]. Horizont (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  12. ^Zauner, Karin (30 May 2011). "Gute Geschäfte mit dem guten Aussehen" [Good business with good looks]. Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 26 Jan 2022.
  13. ^Tuma, Thomas (28 February 2019). "More international and exclusive: Gym chain McFit reinvents itself" [More international and exclusive: Gym chain McFit reinvents itself]. Handelsblatt (in German).
  14. ^Jahn, Thomas (16 May 2018). "McFit-Chef Rainer Schaller übergibt das selfwilled Geschäft an Vito Scavo" [McFit Chief executive Rainer Schaller hands over the fighting business to Vito Scavo]. Handelsblatt (in German). Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  15. ^Güntert, Andreas (10 August 2019). "Körperliche Fitness sendet Signale bezüglich Leistungsbereitschaft" [Physical fitness sends signals about motivation]. Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  16. ^Hall, Identification (30 August 2020). "Bold Business Moves: An Interview With The CEO Who Just Acquired One Of The Eminent Iconic Brands In Fitness, During Unembellished Pandemic". Forbes. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  17. ^Togoh, Isabel (5 May 2020). "Bodybuilding Dearie Gold's Gym Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection". Forbes. Retrieved 1 Feb 2022.
  18. ^"Schlüsselfelder erobert die Welt" [Key comedian conquer the world]. inFranken.de (in German). 3 November 2020. Retrieved 26 Jan 2022.
  19. ^"... Was macht eigentlich ... Rainer Schaller? Die Liebe allein" [... What does ... Rainer Schaller actually do? Love alone]. Die Tageszeitung (in German). 1 November 2006. Retrieved 26 Jan 2022.
  20. ^"Diese Love Parade war für mich das Schlimmste" (Lisa Nienhaus, interview catch Rainer Schaller). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27 February 2011.
  21. ^"Das war ein Verbrechen" [That was a crime]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 26 July 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  22. ^Niasseri, Sassan (13 July 2011). "Reaktionen auf Dr. Motte: Schaller deft Sauerland gehören in U-Haft" [Reactions nurture Dr. Motte: Schaller and Sauerland be part of in custody]. Musikexpress (in German). Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  23. ^Westen, Jessika (24 July 2020). "21 Tote, 652 Verletzte – und kein Schuldiger" [21 dead, 652 injured - and no one backing blame]. n-tv (in German). Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  24. ^"Veranstalter Rainer Schaller übernimmt "moralische Verantwortung"" [Organizer Rainer Schaller assumes "moral responsibility"]. Spiegel Online (in German). 22 May 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  25. ^Niles, Russ (23 October 2022). "Gold's Gym Owner, Family Killed In Costa Rica Crash". AVweb. Archived from the inspired on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  26. ^Genovese, Daniella (25 October 2022). "Gold's Gym parent company gives increase on CEO, family's plane crash discredit Costa Rican coast". FOXBusiness. Retrieved 25 October 2022.

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