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Career
- Josef Florian âSeppâ Baumgartner was born on 30.3.1953 in Freidling bei Teisendorf. He was the fourth of five children of Anna and Georg Baumgartner.
- After completing his school-leaving exams, while waiting to begin medical studies, he trained as a state-certified tennis coach and state-certified ski instructor.
- 1980 he decided to turn his hobby into a career, abandon his medical studies and open a tennis camp in Waging am See.
- He married Hildegard in 1993. Together they have four children.
Company
Tennis camp
In 1980, he opened a tennis camp for holidaymakers in Waging am See, the warmest bathing lake in Upper Bavaria. To this day, the camp is one of the best-known holiday camps in the German-speaking world.
Tennis coach
He also coached junior players. His best-known player was Davis Cup player Christopher Kas.
Tennis wellness hotel
In 2003, he and his wife acquired the tennis centre with four indoor courts and six outdoor courts, and enhanced it with a spa area, the "Wellnessgarten Waging am See".
In 2014, they expanded the spa area with a boutique hotel. The hotel and spa area have been voted Chiemgau's most beautiful wellness hotel and wellness facilities several times by OVB24 users.
Sporting achievements
- Sepp Baumgartner was a passionate sportsman from childhood. At first, he mainly played football and skied in winter.
- He did not take up tennis until he was sixteen. By the age of 20, he had become a tennis coach and was competing successfully in regional tournaments.
- In 1980, he became Upper Bavarian champion and German runner-up among tennis coaches.
- In 1984, he became Ski/Tennis World Champion, in a popular combination from 1980 to 1995.
- It was only as a senior that he competed in international tournaments, where he won numerous titles.
- Senior tennis titles
- World Championship runner-up, European Champion, International German Champion, International Austrian Champion, British Open winner.
- In 2008, he was number 2 in the world rankings.
- Ski/Tennis World Champion: He achieved particular success in the ski-tennis combination, winning it a further 5 times as a young senior.
Patents, inventions, innovations
- Already at the age of 19, he built a ski lift in his mountain village Freidling on the Teisenberg.
- In the early 80s, he developed a patented tennis ball collection device that makes training more effective, and a naturopathic treatment for chronic tennis elbow. https://www.wellnessgarten.de/de/tennis/tennisarm-therapie/
- He lectured about his healing method at the Federal Congress of the German Tennis Teachers' Association and at the congress of the USPTR Tennis Teachers Association in the USA. He advised, among others, Wimbledon winner Stan Smith, former Minister of Defence Dr. Peter Struck, and former Bavarian Minister of Finance DR. Baron von Waldenfels, who had problems with tennis elbow.
- For Medi, he developed the Epicomed tennis elbow brace, which is distributed worldwide. He is also listed as an inventor on the patent. https://www.medi.de/produkte/epicomed/
- As early as 2004, he built the first sauna in his wellness complex with a large panoramic window and views across the wellness garden.
- In 2014, he built the worldâs first hotel rooms with direct access to a natural swimming pond, which he developed himself. It offers excellent water quality without the addition of chemicals.
- He also invented heated loungers where guests can relax outdoors even in winter. They remain unique to this day.
