Jörg Berger
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 October 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Gotenhafen, Germany (today Gdynia, Poland) | ||
| Date of death | 23 June 2010 (aged 65) | ||
| Place of death | Duisburg, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1970 | 1.FC Lok Leipzig | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 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 | SV Darmstadt 98 | ||
| 1980–1981 | SSV Ulm 1846 | ||
| 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 | FC Schalke 04 | ||
| 1997 | FC Basel | ||
| 1997–1998 | Karlsruher SC | ||
| 1998–1999 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| 2000 | Bursaspor | ||
| 2001–2004 | Alemannia Aachen | ||
| 2004–2005 | |||
| 2009 | Arminia Bielefeld | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Jörg Berger (13 October 1944 – 23 June 2010) was a German football manager and player, who last managed Arminia Bielefeld.
As an active he played for 1.FC Lok Leipzig.
In 1970 Berger was forced to retire due to a muscle injury and started his managing career after the studying at the DHfK Leipzig. Berger was a reputable manager in East Germany who was planned to manage the East Germany national football team as successor of longtime manager Georg Buschner some day.
Berger managed the youth team of the GDR. In 1979, he used 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 being poisoned whilst managing KSV Hessen Kassel in the mid-1980s. Evidence of the threats to his life were not available until 1990 when Germany was reunified, after which he was able to search his Stasi files.
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 with KSV Hessen Kassel, ending up in fourth position in the Second division of the Bundesliga (1984 and 1985). His greatest achievements were two third positions with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1990 and with FC Schalke 04 in 1996. He was replaced as manager of Schalke by Huub Stevens in October 1996 shortly before they won the UEFA Cup in 1997.
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