An haifi Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger a ranar 30 ga Yuli, 1947, a Thal, Styria, zuwa Aurelia (née Jadrny; 1922<unk>1998) da Gustav Schwarzenegger (1907<unk>1972). Mahaifinsa shi ne shugaban 'yan sanda na gida kuma ya yi aiki a yakin duniya na biyu a matsayin Hauptfeldwebel bayan da ya shiga cikin Jam'iyyar Nazi a shekara ta 1938, ya ji rauni a lokacin yakin Stalingrad, amma an sake shi a 1943 bayan da ya kamu da cutar malaria. Ya auri mahaifiyar Schwarzenegger a ranar 20 ga Oktoba, 1945; yana da shekaru 38 kuma tana da shekaru 23. A cewar Arnold Schwarzenegger, iyayensa sun kasance masu tsananin gaske: "A baya a Ostiryia ya kasance duniya daban-daban... idan muka yi wani abu ko mun saba wa iyayenmu, ba a lalata shi ba".
Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Austrian