Jörg Berger
Jörg Berger ( born October 13, 1944 in Gdynia, † June 23, 2010 in Duisburg, Germany ) was a German football player and coach.
Career
With five years laced Jörg Berger, who had fled with his family to the end of the Second World War from Pomerania to Leipzig, his first Fuballschuhe and played in the children's team of Motor Stötteritz, today SSV Stötteritz. In his time as a footballer Berger played for the DDR Oberliga 1 FC Locomotive Leipzig. Because a muscle injury, he had his career as league players but quit very early and then studied at the Leipzig DHfK. At this he joined his coaching career. Berger in the GDR was a respected football coach, who was scheduled to eventually take over the national team, succeeding Georg Buschner.
Berger was the coach of the junior national team of the GDR 1979, when he took advantage of a game in Yugoslavia to escape to the West. There he became the first head coach in 1979 place the team SV Darmstadt 98 (2nd Bundesliga). As GDR refugee he found himself exposed to threats, organized by the Stasi in the West. So he survived as manager of KSV Hessen Kassel mid-1980s, possibly a poison attack. Evidence of the death threats he received but only after the reunification of Germany in 1990 at the screening of its secret police files.
In the early phase of his coaching career Berger missed 1984 and 1985, twice as fourth in the 2nd Bundesliga nearly promotion to the Bundesliga. Then the motivation artist Jörg Berger coached several Bundesliga clubs, which he often saved from relegation, making it the nickname "Fireman " earned. However, he rarely got the chance to build a team for a long time. His best performances as a coach he reached with two third places in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1990 and FC Schalke 04 in 1996. In October 1996, he was discharged at Schalke and replaced by Huub Stevens. He could therefore no longer be celebrated as coach Schalke UEFA Cup win in the same season.
After brief interludes in 1997 at FC Basel and 1998 at Karlsruher SC he rescued in 1999 as coach of Eintracht Frankfurt the club from relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga. In 2000, Berger took over the coach position at Turkish club Bursaspor. According to Berger's information where a professional work has not been possible: 19 president tried to influence the team's formation. As the sporting success failed to short-term, Berger was threatened directly and indirectly to the death, and he decided to leave the country as quickly as possible. Five years later he won the case for his severance pay.
Last great success of Jörg Berger was the finals of the DFB - Pokal with the second-division club Alemannia Aachen. However, the Treaty of Berger after the defeat against the reigning German champions Werder Bremen and at the same time non- promotion to the 1st League was dissolved by mutual agreement of June 30, 2004.
From 17 November 2004 to 14 August 2005, he was head coach of Hansa Rostock. He was released after a 1:4 defeat against TSV 1860 München after the second round of the second division.
Furthermore, he was a TV expert, inter alia, for the second league, worked at the television premiere.
On 6 March 2009 his autobiography was published My two halves: A life in East and West, in his life in the GDR and the reaching of his move to West Germany from 1979 to 1990 follow-up and monitoring by the State Security of the GDR as well as his life after the turn and his cancer are presented. The book peaked at # 8 on the Spiegel bestseller list. The first edition was sold out within a few days after publication.
On 19 May 2009 he was introduced as the new coach of Arminia Bielefeld. Berger thus entered in the footsteps of Michael Frontzeck, which was suspended on 17 May 2009. After the descent of the Arminia still could not be prevented, Berger left the club already again on May 24, 2009.
Berger supervised from 2009The German author national team, was charged with the May 2, 2010 in his last match as coach champions.
Private
Berger was married to his second wife 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.
During 2002, Berger paused a long time as manager of Alemannia Aachen due to surgery ( colon tumor). In 2005 he underwent surgery again (liver metastases). In November 2008, chemotherapy was started again. Jörg Berger died 23 June 2010 his long battle with cancer. He was buried in Duisburg- Rahm, where he had lived for a long time.