Achim Stocker

Achim Stocker ( born May 27, 1935 in Konstanz, † November 1, 2009 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German football official.

Life

Stocker grew up in Konstanz, studied law in Freiburg and did so as an active player for SC Freiburg. He worked until his retirement as a government director of the General Tax Directorate Freiburg.

He died at the age of 74 years to a heart attack and a brain stroke he suffered on October 28, 2009. Stocker was married and had a daughter and a son. He was buried on the mountain fields graveyard in Freiburg - Littenweiler.

Functionary activity

Stocker was 1970-1972, third President of the SC Freiburg. In 1972, he was elected in absentia as the first chairman of the club and accepted his choice in retrospect. He held the office until his death, making him the longest-serving president of a club in German professional football.

Achim Stocker led the SC Freiburg in 1978, first in the then two-part second Bundesliga, then in 1981 in the then-new single-track second Bundesliga.

In 1991 he undertook Volker Finke as their new coach. Under the leadership Stockers as President and Finke as coach the men's soccer team of the club first time in 1993 was promoted to the first division. As a result could be achieved with the third Erstligaplatz 1995 and with the participations in the UEFA Cup in 1996 and 2002, the greatest successes of the club's history. 1997 and 2002 SC Freiburg rose from each to immediately rise again in the following year.

2007 undertook Achim Stocker Robin Dutt as Finke's successor. 2009 then succeeded the men's soccer team in the promotion back to the 1st Bundesliga.

Together with Volker Finke built Stocker at the Freiburg school football. Was started in 2004 to its further financing named after him Achim Stocker Foundation Freiburg football club from the school and the city of Freiburg.