Horst-Dieter Berking

Horst-Dieter Berking (born March 1, 1940 in Hamburg ; † February 17, 1999 ) was a German soccer player who, as a striker for Karlsruher SC, played 55 games in the Bundesliga between 1964 and 1967 and scored six goals .

career

Amateur, Oberliga and Regionalliga in the north, until 1964

In the green-reds of VfB Peine , at the sports field on Ilseder Straße, the extremely strong sprint winger Horst-Dieter Berking drew the attention of the upper division Bremerhaven 93 in the 1961/62 season in the Lower Saxony East amateur league with his offensive performances. For the last season of the old first-class football Oberliga Nord , 1962/63, he was a contract footballer with the Weinrote in the Zollinland stadium. Berking made his debut on the first day of the season, in a 3-1 away win at Concordia Hamburg , on right winger in the Oberliga Nord. He completed 28 league games alongside teammates Manfred Bertl, Günther Bolte, Hermann Gehrke and Werner Schütte and scored seven goals. The "Zolli" eleven took 13th place. In the first season of the newly introduced Football Regionalliga Nord , 1963/64, he was also active on the right wing on the start day of the new league for Bremerhaven, in the 2-2 away draw against VfV Hildesheim on August 11, 1963. When the team from Zollinland also drew 2-2 against VfL Osnabrück on November 17, 1963 in the stadium at the Bremer Brücke against VfL Osnabrück , Berking stood out as a two-time goalscorer. The center forward of the home team, Udo Lattek , however, failed to score. Berking played 28 regional league games and scored six goals this season and Bremerhaven took twelfth place. With his ability to sprint well above average, he had drawn attention to himself in the two years in Bremerhaven and therefore accepted the offer of the Bundesliga club Karlsruher SC for the 1964/65 round and moved to the fan-shaped city of Baden.

Karlsruhe, 1964 to 1967

The processing of the debut season 1963/64 - the KSC had scored 42:55 goals 24:36 and occupied 13th place - in the Bundesliga, had led to the result in the wildlife park that the offensive should be intensified urgently, so as not to get involved in the relegation battle again. Therefore, in addition to Berking, two other offensive forces came to Karlsruhe: the ex-national striker Hans Cieslarczyk and the top scorer of the regional soccer league in 1963/64, Klaus-Peter Jendrosch . Werder Bremen started in 1963/64 with a goal difference of 53:62 goals in tenth place in the Bundesliga. In terms of personnel, coach Willi Multhaup drew the conclusions that the defense would have to be strengthened and that a dangerous striker would have to be added for the attack. With the newcomers Horst-Dieter Höttges and Heinz Steinmann , he added a lot of quality to the defense and in attack he relied on the final qualities of Klaus Matischak from Schalke 04. The result was sensational: Werder won with 54:29 goals and 41:19 points Bremen won the German championship in 1965. In Karlsruhe, the personnel definition of those responsible seemed to be confirmed after the first match day. On the starting day, KSC immediately scored the first two points with a 2-1 win against last year's runner-up, Meidericher SV . All three newcomers were in the victorious attack of the home team, plus Otto Geisert and Erwin Metzger . The hopes for sporting gains could not be put into practice in the course of the further preliminary round and coach Kurt Sommerlatt was replaced by Helmut Schneider on January 27, 1965 . With 47:62 goals, the KSC ranked 15th at the end of the round, which would actually have meant relegation. Only through the forced relegation of Hertha BSC and the increase in the Bundesliga to 18 clubs from the 1965/66 round onwards, the Karlsruher SC remained in the Bundesliga. Berking played 17 games and scored one goal. Since Cieslarczyk with 18/8 and Jendrosch with 13/5 missions and goals had not become the hoped-for offensive reinforcements and nothing at all to improve on the defense, the negative performance of the KSC was not really surprising.

Personally, in the second year, 1965/66, Berking's record at Karlsruher SC improved significantly due to the number of his games. With 29 appearances and four goals he was the undisputed regular player in the attack of the blue-whites, but where the midfielder Horst Wild led the internal scorer list with eleven hits. In the overall result, the KSC placed in 34 round games with the negative goal difference of 35:71 still just on the saving 16th place, the performance was again a disappointment for the Karlsruhe team. Coach Schneider was therefore replaced by Werner Roth on October 19, 1965 , but this did not lead to an increase in game performance. The 0: 8 and 2: 8 slaps in the second half of the season at Hamburger SV and MSV Duisburg speak a clear language about the KSC's level of performance in the 1965/66 season.

When under coach Paul Frantz in the second half of the season 1966/67 there was a visible increase in performance at KSC, the fast winger Horst-Dieter Berking was no longer a member of the team. He had played all nine league games in the preliminary round. His last Bundesliga appearance was on December 3, 1966, when the Badeners were able to assert themselves in the local derby against VfB Stuttgart with 4-1 goals. He formed the attack of the home team together with center forward Christian Müller and left winger Friedhelm Strzelczyk , who was supported from midfield by Arthur Dobat , Dragoslav Šekularac and Klaus Zaczyk . In the summer of 1967 Berking returned to Lower Saxony and joined the regional league team Göttingen 05 .

Göttingen and the end of the amateur camp, 1967 to 1975

In the second division of the Regionalliga Nord, Berking experienced an exciting three-way battle at the top of the table for the championship as an active player in Göttingen 05 with the team of coach Fritz Rebell in the 1967/68 season. With the same number of points as champion Arminia Hannover, Göttingen won the runner-up, one point ahead of VfL Wolfsburg, who had been in the lead for a long time. With teammates Dietmar Degenhardt, Rolf Dube, Fred Englert , Peter Klepatz , Heiner Klose and Klaus Matz, Berking entered the Bundesliga promotion round against rivals Hertha BSC, Rot-Weiss Essen, SV Alsenborn and FC Bayern Hof. In five missions he scored two goals and Göttingen took fourth place. In his second year in Göttingen, 1968/69, VfL Osnabrück kept the pursuers VfB Lübeck, St. Pauli and Göttingen safely at a distance and Göttingen had to be content with fourth place. After 36 regional league appearances with six goals, Berking ended his playing in Göttingen in 1969 and returned to his old home for VfB Peine in the Lower Saxony amateur league for the 1969/70 round. After three rounds with Peine, he ended his career at SG Adenstedt - not far from Peine.

literature

• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.), Regionalliga Nord 1963–1974, Jade, 2002, ISBN 3-930814-28-5 .
• Matthias Kropp, Germany's major soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC, AGON Sportverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .