Jörg Berger

This article is about the soccer player and coach Jörg Berger. For the psychologist see Jörg Berger (psychologist) .

Jörg Berger
Personnel
birthday	October 13, 1944
place of birth	Gotenhafen ,  Germany
date of death	June 23, 2010
Place of death	Duisburg ,  Germany
size	180 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	BSG Motor Stötteritz
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964-1967	SC Leipzig / 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	16 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962-1963	GDR U-18	4 (0)
1967	DDR U-23	3 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1970-1972	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (youngsters)
1972-1974	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (youngsters)
1974-1976	Hallescher FC Chemie II
1976-1988	GDR U-18
1978-1979	DDR U-21
1979-1980	SV Darmstadt 98
1980-1981	SSV Ulm 1846
1981-1982	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1983-1986	KSV Hessen Kassel
1986	Hannover 96
1986-1988	Sc freiburg
1988-1991	Eintracht Frankfurt
1991-1993	1. FC Cologne
1993-1996	FC Schalke 04
1997	FC Basel
1998	Karlsruher SC
1999	Eintracht Frankfurt
2000	Bursaspor
2001-2004	Alemannia Aachen
2004-2005	Hansa Rostock
2009	Arminia Bielefeld
2009-2010	National team of authors
1 Only league games are given.

Jörg Berger (born October 13, 1944 in Gotenhafen ; † June 23, 2010 in Duisburg ) was a German football player and football coach.

Career

With five years constricted Joerg Berger, who with his family after the end of World War II from Pomerania to Leipzig had fled, his first football boots and played in the children's team of engine Stötteritz, today SSV Stötteritz . In 1962 and 1963 he was a member of the GDR junior team , for which he played four international matches. From 1964 to 1967 Berger played for SC Leipzig and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . However, he did not get beyond the role of a substitute player and played only 16 league games in four seasons. In 1967 he was used in three international matches of the GDR youth national team, in which he scored two goals.

Because of a muscle injury, he had to end his career as a league player early. He began studying at the DHfK Leipzig and then a career as a coach. As a 30-year-old coach, he won the district championship title in Halle with the 2nd team of Halleschen FC and thus promotion to the second-class league .

Berger was a respected football coach in the GDR who was to take over the national team at some point as the successor to Georg Buschner . Berger, however, used a game in Yugoslavia as a coach of the GDR youth team in 1979 to flee to the West. In 1979 he was the first team to take over SV Darmstadt 98 in the 2nd Bundesliga as head coach. As a refugee from the GDR, he was exposed to threats organized by the Stasi in the west. As a coach of KSV Hessen Kassel, he apparently survived a poison attack in the mid-1980s. However , he only obtained certainty about the assassinations after the reunification of Germany in 1990 when he looked through his Stasi files .

In the early stages of his coaching career, Berger narrowly missed promotion to the Bundesliga twice in 1984 and 1985, finishing fourth in the second division . After that, the motivational artist Berger trained several Bundesliga clubs, which he often saved from relegation, earning him the nickname "firefighter". However, he rarely got the chance to build a team over a long period of time. He achieved his best performance as a coach with two third places in the Bundesliga, 1990 with Eintracht Frankfurt and 1996 with FC Schalke 04 . In October 1996 he was dismissed from Schalke and replaced by Huub Stevens . He was therefore unable to celebrate the Schalke UEFA Cup win in the same season as a coach.

After brief guest appearances at FC Basel in 1997 and at Karlsruher SC in 1998 , he saved the club from relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1999 as the coach of Eintracht Frankfurt. In 2000 Berger took over the coaching position at the Turkish club Bursaspor. According to him, professional work was not possible there: 19 presidents are said to have tried to influence the team line-up. When the rapid sporting success failed to materialize, Berger was threatened with death, both directly and indirectly, and he decided to leave the country as soon as possible. It wasn't until five years later that he won the lawsuit for his compensation.

Jörg Berger's last great success was the entry into the final of the DFB Cup with the second division club Alemannia Aachen . However, Berger's contract was terminated by mutual agreement on June 30, 2004 after the defeat against the reigning German champions Werder Bremen and at the same time not being promoted to the Bundesliga.

From November 17, 2004 to August 14, 2005 he was head coach of Hansa Rostock , but rose with the club at the end of the Bundesliga season 2004/05 from the Bundesliga and was in the following second division season after a 1: 4 defeat against the TSV 1860 Munich sacked after the second match.

He then worked as a TV expert for the television station Premiere , among other things for its reporting on the 2nd division.

On March 6, 2009 his autobiography Meine Zwei Halbzeiten was published: A life in East and West , in which his life in the GDR and the persecution and observation by the GDR State Security from 1979 to 1990, as well as his life, was published the turning point and its cancer are represented. The book rose to number 8 on the Spiegel bestseller list. The first edition was sold out within a few days of publication.

On May 19, 2009 he was introduced as the new trainer by Arminia Bielefeld . Berger succeeded Michael Frontzeck , who was on leave on May 17, 2009 on the relegation place. With a 2: 2 on the last match day against Hannover 96, they slipped to a direct relegation zone. Berger then left the club after only a week. Due to the employment in Bielefeld, Jörg Berger, together with Otto Rehhagel , is the trainer with the most trained clubs in the Bundesliga (8 clubs) and most stations as a trainer in the Bundesliga (9 stations).

He then took care of the German national team of authors , with which he was European champion on May 2, 2010 in his last game as a coach.

Honors

Since January 23, 2013, an image of Jörg Berger has adorned one of the twelve “Pillars of Unity” in the Willy-Brandt-Platz underground station in Frankfurt.

Private

Berger was married twice and the father of three children, a son from his first marriage to the former competitive swimmer Harriet Blank and twin daughters from his second marriage.

In 2002, Berger took a long break as a trainer at Alemannia Aachen because of an operation ( intestinal tumor ). In 2005 he underwent another operation ( liver metastases ). In November 2008, chemotherapy was started again. On June 23, 2010 Jörg Berger succumbed to his long-term cancer. He was buried in Duisburg-Rahm , where he had lived for a long time.

literature

• Jörg Berger: My two halves - a life in East and West . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-00654-9 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 68.

Web links

• Stasi victim Jörg Berger: The betrayed "sports traitor" . In: Die Zeit , No. 13/2009
• Philip Cassier: How the Stasi wanted to poison Jörg Berger. In: The world. March 5, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
• "I was a risk to the system" on a day
• Alemannia mourns Jörg Berger - former coach died at the age of 65 .
• Mielke's avenger unpunished: the Stasi infiltrated GDR sport - Jörg Berger is still afraid today , Die Welt , March 22, 2000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FC Hansa Rostock mourns the loss of its former coach Jörg Berger . FC Hansa Rostock
2. ↑ Jörg Berger - My two halves
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Berger in an interview: Stasi wanted to kill Bundesliga coach. In: Stern . March 3, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
4. ↑ fuwo - The new football week . Aug 5, 1975, p. 13.
5. ↑ On Wednesday in the Audimax: “Thuringian Book Spring 2009 with Jörg Berger”. In: Website of the city of Nordhausen. February 11, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Jörg Berger - My wild escape to the west. In: image. March 4, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
7. ↑ He wants to train again: Jörg Berger fights back. (No longer available online.) In: Rheinische Post . March 4, 2009, archived from the original on March 9, 2009 ; accessed on June 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Soccer coach unpacks in Kerner show - Berger and the mysterious Stasi poison attack. (No longer available online.) In: Rheinische Post. May 18, 2001, archived from the original on August 26, 2009 ; accessed on June 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Philip Cassier: The trainer and the Stasi. In: The world . March 7, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Jörg Berger: Trainer Jörg Berger This is how the Stasi chased me. In: image. March 2, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Berger in Turkey: “A downright ghostly experience”. In: Spiegel Online . March 10, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
12. ↑ 11 Freunde -Magazin, March 2009, pp. 26 and 27
13. ↑ Jörg Berger fussballdaten.de
14. ↑ After a missed promotion and a lost final. Aachen: "Jörg Berger's era" is over. In: Rheinische Post. May 31, 2004, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
15. ↑ Berger released in Rostock. In: Berliner Zeitung . August 15, 2005, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
16. ↑ football second league sky.de
17. ↑ Jörg Berger - My two halves rowohlt.de
18. ↑ Berger's moving biography: “My two halves” . ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SUPERillu 
19. ↑ Andreas Montag: A man speaks plain language - football teacher talks about the GDR and his cancer. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . March 5, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
20. ↑ Berger new Arminia trainer. Coach firmly believes in relegation / contract until the end of the season. In: New Westphalian . May 19, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
21. ^ Arminia Bielefeld: Berger says goodbye. Schwick settles accounts with Dammeier. In: Kicker . May 24, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
22. ↑ Bielefeld ends cooperation with Berger. In: dpa-infocom, Rhein-Zeitung. Retrieved June 15, 2015 . 
23. ↑ Jörg Berger. Trainer profile. In: kicker.de. Retrieved November 4, 2017 . 
24. ↑ Trainer: Wandervögel and long-running favorites. November 1, 2017, accessed November 4, 2017 . 
25. ↑ dfb.de
26. ^ Hendrik Baumann: National team of authors: Reading the game. In: Der Spiegel . September 17, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
27. ↑ Fireman Berger finally becomes national coach. In: The world . September 15, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
28. ↑ wdr.de ( Memento from December 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
29. ↑ German authors win the European championship . dfb.de from May 2, 2010
30. ↑ Pillars of harmony ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
31. ↑ Jörg Berger: Soccer coach in conversation with Wolfgang Nadvornik (PDF) BR broadcast from May 25, 2007, 8:15 p.m.
32. ↑ Walter M. Straten: BILD visit to Jörg Berger, who is suffering from cancer, “I was already on the threshold of death”. In: image. December 29, 2008, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
33. ^ Cancer sufferer Jörg Berger - "I will not give up". In: Spiegel Online . November 11, 2002, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
34. ↑ Jörg Berger - Cancer diagnosis on the mailbox. In: image. March 4, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
35. ^ Walter M. Straten: Chemo again! Bald Berger on TV - "I'm optimistic, a fighter". In: image . November 10, 2008, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
36. ↑ Jörg Berger is dead. (No longer available online.) In: Rheinische Post. June 24, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 15, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.