Horst Berg – Wikipedia

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Horst Berg (Born September 8, 1941 in Troisdorf; [first] † May 7, 2022 in Überherrn) [2] Was a German football player. He played 134 Bundesliga games for Borussia Neunkirchen, Eintracht Braunschweig, TSV 1860 Munich and Hannover 96, whereby he scored 14 goals.

In the southwest, 1962 to 1967 [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

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The later all -round player Horst Berg drew attention to himself in the 1961/62 season in the Mittelrhein association league at his club SSV Troisdorf 05. The scouts of Borussia Neunkirchen signed the attacker of the black and white from the “Auf der Heide” sports field for the 1962/63 season. Already on the second matchday of the Southwest football league, on August 26, 1962, the newcomer from Troisdorf made his debut in the league team from the Ellenfeldstadion. The Borussians won the game 2-1 goals at SC Ludwigshafen. Eight days later, Berg entered the goal scorer list for the first time. He came under coach Hans Pilz on 20 league missions and scored ten goals. As runner -up in the southwest, Neunkirchen moved into the final round around the German Championship in 1963. Berg formed the attack of the Borussia Neunkirchen was not nominated for the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season. With coach Horst Buhtz, Neunkirchen moved into the promotion round as a master of the soccer regional league Südwest. Surprisingly, the Saarlanders prevailed against the group favorite Bayern Munich and rose to the Bundesliga. Berg scored two goals in the 4-1 home win against St. Pauli on June 10th.

In the 1964/65 Bundesliga season, he could not put himself in the circle of regular players – Horst Kirsch, Erwin Glod, Erich Leist, Achim Melcher, Dieter Schock, Hans Schreier, Günter Schröder, Günter Heiden, Günter Kuntz, Dieter Harig – With Heinz Simmet (8-7) with his seven missions and a goal, the role of the supplementary player.

Therefore, he preferred to take the step back for round in 1965/66 and joined Saar 05 Saarbrücken in the Southwest soccer regional league in the southwest. From 1965 to 1967 he came to 60 regional league missions under coach Otto Knefler and scored 27 goals. Coach Helmuth Johannsen from the sensational master Eintracht Braunschweig hired the man of Saar 05 to the round of 1967/68 and Berg returned to the Bundesliga.

Bundesliga, 1967 to 1972 [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The man from the Middle Rhine belonged to the defending champion in the 1967/68 season with 30 missions and three goals. Eintracht could only take ninth place. In the games of the national championship competition in the European Cup against Rapid Vienna and Juventus Turin, on the other hand, the German champion of 1967. Berg managed the meantime 3-1 lead in the first half of the season in Braunschweig against Juventus in the 39th minute. Like Lothar Ulsass, he fell out against the Italians for the decision -making game on March 20 in Bern. After 54 Bundesliga missions with five goals for Eintracht Braunschweig, he accepted the offer from TSV 1860 Munich for the 1969/70 round and moved to Bavaria.

In the “Löwen” he experienced the coaching work by Fritz Langner (until November 12, 1969) and Franz Binder. However, both of them could not prevent the financially stricken ex-champion in 1966 at the end of the table as the penultimate descent to the relegation to the soccer regional league South. Berg had scored a goal for the “lions” in 23 missions. On the first matchday, August 16, 1969, he and Rudolf Zeiser and Rudolf Kölbl had formed the Munich midfield in the 0-0 draw at Alemannia Aachen. With a new contract with Hannover 96 for round 1970/71, Berg continued to play in the Bundesliga. Under his former Braunschweig coach Helmuth Johannsen, he mostly formed the defense of the “red” with Peter Anders, Hans-Josef Hellingrath and Rainer Stiller. The 96 took ninth place and Berg had played 32 games and scored five goals. In the second year in Hanover, 1971/72, after a weak start coach Johannsen was released on November 13, 1971 and replaced by Hans Hipp. Berg came to another 18 Bundesliga missions and scored two goals. After a total of 134 Bundesliga departures with 14 goals, the 31-year-old ended the Bundesliga chapter in 1972 and joined SV Röchling Völklingen, playing in the regional league Südwest, for the round of 1972/73.

Regionalliga Südwest, 1972 to 1974 [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In the stadium on Köllerbach (until 1974), his old well -known Helmuth Johannsen actually managed the sporting direction and Röchling the runner -up championship and thus moved into the Bundesliga promotion round in 1973. Together with the teammates Jürgen Stars, Lothar Weschke, Klaus Hommrich, Walter Spohr, Jürgen Fuhrmann, Claus Schygulla and Hans-Werner Kremer, he took up the fight against the competitors Rot-Weiss Essen, Darmstadt 98, VfL Osnabrück and Wacker 04 Berlin. Berg was used in all eight group games, but Essen prevailed in front of Darmstadt and Völklingen. In the year of the 1974 World Cup, it was not enough to move into the promotion round, with SV Routinier Berg came fourth. From 1972 to 1974 there were another 54 regional league games with three goals for Berg. Overall, it is run in the then second -class regional league Southwest with 122 missions and 34 goals.

After three point games in the newly installed 2nd Bundesliga Group Süd in the 1974/75 season, he ended his higher class career in 1975.

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  • Ulrich Homann (ed.): Hell glow on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Plain text, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5.
  • Hardy Greens, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German league football. Band 8: Player lexicon 1890-1963. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7.
  1. ↑ Horst Berg – player profile. Accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Obitities by Horst Berg. In: Saarbruecker-iitung.trauer.de. 28. May 2022, accessed on July 29, 2022 (German).

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