| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1944-10-13)13 October 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Gotenhafen,Nazi Germany | ||
| Date of death | 23 June 2010(2010-06-23) (aged 65) | ||
| Place of death | Duisburg, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1970 | 1.FC Lok Leipzig | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1970–1972 | Lok Leipzig II | ||
| 1972–1974 | Carl Zeiss Jena | ||
| 1974–1976 | Hallescher FC Chemie | ||
| 1976–1978 | East Germany U-19 | ||
| 1978–1979 | East Germany U-21 | ||
| 1979–1980 | Darmstadt 98 | ||
| 1980–1981 | SSV Ulm | ||
| 1981–1982 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | ||
| 1983–1986 | KSV Hessen Kassel | ||
| 1986 | Hannover 96 | ||
| 1986–1988 | SC Freiburg | ||
| 1988–1991 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| 1991–1993 | 1. FC Köln | ||
| 1993–1996 | Schalke 04 | ||
| 1997 | FC Basel | ||
| 1997–1998 | Karlsruher SC | ||
| 1998–1999 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| 2000 | Bursaspor | ||
| 2001–2004 | Alemannia Aachen | ||
| 2004–2005 | Hansa Rostock | ||
| 2009 | Arminia Bielefeld | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jörg Berger (13 October 1944 – 23 June 2010) was a Germanfootball manager and player, who last managedArminia Bielefeld.
As an active he played for1.FC Lok Leipzig.
In 1970, Berger was forced to retire due to a muscle injury and started his managing career after the studying at theDHfK Leipzig. Berger was a reputable manager inEast Germany who was planned to manage thenational team as successor of longtime managerGeorg Buschner some day.
Berger managed the youth team of the GDR. In 1979, he used a match inYugoslavia to flee to West Germany. He signed withSecond Bundesliga sideSV Darmstadt 98. As a GDR refugee he suffered many threats by the East German secret policeStasi. He survived being poisoned whilst managingKSV Hessen Kassel in the mid-1980s. Evidence of the threats to his life were not available until 1990 when Germany wasreunified, after which he was able to search his Stasi files.[1]
He was renowned as a great motivator, helping clubs threatened with relegation, but with little chance to build up teams over a longer period. Berger became the ’’fireman’’ of the Bundesliga after he twice failed to gain promotion to the Bundesliga withKSV Hessen Kassel, ending up in fourth position in the Second division of the Bundesliga (1984 and 1985).[2] His greatest achievements were two third positions withEintracht Frankfurt in 1990 and withFC Schalke 04 in 1996.[3] He was replaced as manager of Schalke byHuub Stevens in October 1996 shortly before they won theUEFA Cup in 1997.
Berger's last big success was reaching theDFB-Pokal final withAlemannia Aachen, a side from the Second division of the Bundesliga. However his contract was cancelled, by mutual agreement, after they lost to the then current champions (SV Werder Bremen) and failed to gain promotion to the Bundesliga.[4]
From 17 November 2004 until 14 August 2005, he was the manager ofFC Hansa Rostock.[5] He was fired after a 1–4 defeat byTSV 1860 München. On 18 May 2009, was named as the new Head Coach fromDSC Arminia Bielefeld.[6] His contract ran until 30 June 2009.[7] He left the club on this date.
Berger was the father of three children. In 2002, he had to interrupt his time as Alemannia Aachen manager due to an operation on an intestinal tumour. In 2005, he was operated on again, this time onlivermetastasis. He released his biography"Meine zwei Halbzeiten: Ein Leben in Ost und West" (English:My Two Halves: A Life in the East and in the West) over theLeipzig basedRowohlt Verlag in March 2009.[8] Berger died on 23 June 2010 of anenterictumor.[9]
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