Jörg Berger

Jörg Berger (Born October 13, 1944 in Gotenhafen, Pomerania, Germany, now Gdynia, Poland, Pomerania region) is a German football manager and former player, currently without a tenure.

Career

As an active he played for 1.FC Lok Leipzig. In 1970 Berger had to finish his career due to a muscle injury and started his managing career after the study on the DHfK Leipzig his managing career. Berger was a reputable manager in East Germany who was planned to assume East Germany national football team as successor of long time manager Georg Buschner some day.Berger managed the youth selection of the GDR. In 1979 he took use of a match in Yugoslavia to flee to West Germany. He signed with Second Bundesliga side SV Darmstadt 98. As a GDR refugee he suffered many threats by the East German secret police Stasi. He survived he a poison assault while managing KSV Hessen Kassel in the mid of the 80s. Evidences for the threats on his life he could not until 1990 when Germany was reunited and was allowed to search his Stasi files.

Jörg Berger is reputed as a great motivator, achieving success at clubs threatened by relegation but hardly got the opportunity to build up a team for a longer period. Berger became the ’’fireman’’ of the Bundesliga after he twice failed to promote to the Bundesliga when Hessen Kassel ended up as fourth of the Second Bundesliga (1984 and 1985). His greatest honours were two third positions with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1990 and with FC Schalke 04 in 1996. It was not granted to him to manage Schalke when they won the UEFA Cup in 1997 as he was substituted by Huub Stevens in October 1996.

Berger’s last big success was the entry to the DFB-Pokal final with Second Bundesliga side Alemannia Aachen. But finally his contract was cancelled by mutual agreement as the team lost against the then current champion SV Werder Bremen and failed to promote to the Bundesliga. From 17th November 2004 until 14th August 2005 he was manager of FC Hansa Rostock. He was fired after a 1-4 loss against TSV 1860 München.

Private life

Berger is father of three children.

In 2002 had to interrupt his occupation as Alemannia Aachen manager due to an operation on an intestinal tumour. In 2005 he was operated again, this time on liver metastasis.

Tenures

* 1972 - 1974 Lok Leipzig as youth manager
* 1972 - 1974 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
* 1974 - 1976 Hallescher FC
* 1976 - 1978 East Germany (Youth team )
* 1978 - 1979 East Germany B
* 1979 – 1980 SV Darmstadt 98
* 1980 - 1981 SSV Ulm 1846
* 1981 – 1982 Fortuna Düsseldorf
* 1983 – 1986 KSV Hessen Kassel
* 1986 - 1986 Hannover 96
* 1986 – 1988 SC Freiburg
* 1988 – 1991 Eintracht Frankfurt
* 1991 – 1993 1. FC Köln
* 1993 – 1996 FC Schalke 04
* 1997 – 1997 FC Basel
* 1997 – 1998 Karlsruher SC
* 1998 – 1999 Eintracht Frankfurt
* 2000 - 2000 Bursaspor (8 matches)
* 2001 – 2004 Alemannia Aachen
* 2004 – 2005 FC Hansa Rostock

External links

* [http://www.eintracht-archiv.de/berger.html Jörg Berger at eintracht-archiv.de]