The trajectory of life of Georg Black, considered the precursor of the Physical Education and the Sports in the state of the Rio Grande Do Sul, was marked by many accomplishments. For its excellent contribution in the propagation of the german gymnastics in the sporting clubs and the schools of the german community of Porto Alegre and São Leopoldo for more than 30 years (1905-1937), some authors (Daudt, 1952; Hofmeister, 1987) it to it mentions as being the "Father of the Physical Education in the Rio Grande Do Sul". Its name is remembered in some places in the city of Porto Alegre: Communitarian center Georg Black (CEGEB), Group of Escoteiros Georg Black and in some sectors of the SOGIPA. In this way, the central objective of the present study was to reconstitute to the history of life of Georg Black in the scene of the Physical Education and Sports of the Rio Grande do Sul. For in such a way, the consulted sources had been the act books and annual reports of the SOGIPA, commemorative books of this society of gymnastics, Atlases of the Sport in Brazil and the Rio Grande do Sul, Sporting Register of the Rio Grande do Sul, Periodical Post office of the People, among others sources printed. The research revealed that Georg Black, inserted widely in the sports arena, especially Porto Alegre, contributing to the emergence and dissemination the diversified corporeal practices and sports.
Physical Education; Sport; History; Memories; Gymnastics