Herbert Burdenski

Herbert Burdenski

Personal information
Date of birth	(1922-05-19)19 May 1922
Place of birth	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Date of death	15 September 2001(2001-09-15) (aged 79)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1934–1935	SV Erle 08
1935–1943	Schalke 04
1943–1944	VfB Königsberg
1944–1945	Eintracht Braunschweig
1945–1946	SV Erle 08
1946	TSV Braunschweig
1947	SSV Buer
1947–1949	Schalke 04
1949–1954	Werder Bremen
International career
1941–1951	Germany	5	(2)
Managerial career
1963–1964	STV Horst-Emscher
1969–1971	Rot-Weiß Essen
1972	Borussia Dortmund
1975–1976	Werder Bremen
1976	SG Union Solingen
1976–1978	Wuppertaler SV
1978–1979	Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Herbert "Budde" Burdenski (19 May 1922 – 15 September 2001), was a German football player and coach.

Biography

Burdenski began his football career with the Erle 08 in Gelsenkirchen. In 1935 he was discovered playing in the local school championships by Ernst Kuzorra, who signed him to FC Schalke 04. There he became part of the Schalke team, winning the 1940 and 1942 German championship.

In 1949 Burdenski was a sports teacher in Bremen, and when the German championship returned he signed to play for Werder Bremen. It was during this time that he scored the only goal in a match against Switzerland in Stuttgart on 22 November 1950, the first international match of the West Germany national football team after the Second World War. Burdenski played five games for the national team during this second phase of his career.

After retiring from playing, Burdenski became a coach for: Rot-Weiß Essen, Borussia Dortmund, SV Werder Bremen, MSV Duisburg, STV Horst-Emscher, Wuppertaler SV, and Westfalia Herne. Essen and Dortmund were relegated from the Bundesliga under his reign.

Up to his death, Burdenski remained connected to FC Schalke, mainly to advise the supervisory board and presidency.

Personal life

Burdenski is the father of the successful Bundesliga player Dieter Burdenski. As a manager in Bundesliga in the 1960s and 1970s, it came to happen that SV Werder Bremen brought the two Burdenski's together for the season of 1975–76. Dieter Burdenski played 22 of his 34 Bundesliga matches that season under the management of his father. In February 1976, Werder, lying in a precarious position in the bottom-half of Bundesliga then, sacked Herbert to replace him with Otto Rehhagel.