Uwe Harttgen

As a player

Harttgen began his career as an adult footballer, unusually for a later professional, in the Kreisklasse B, where he played with friends as a recreational athlete. His first semi-professional stop was then Oberliga club FC Mahndorf, where he was discovered at the age of 23 by SV Werder Bremen for the second team, who were looking for an older leading player. Two years later, during the 1989/90 season, Harttgen was used for the first time in the Bundesliga by the Bremen club. Harttgen was able to fight his way into the regular squad in the second half of the season. He remained a regular during Bremen's great period in the early 1990s, but in the 1993/94 season he was only able to play a single game in the Bundesliga due to health issues. Harttgen moved to Hannover 96 in the 2. Bundesliga in 1994, for this club he made 37 appearances in two years and scored 4 goals. During the 1995/96 season he went back to SV Werder, where he played mainly in the second team. In 1997/98 he made five more Bundesliga appearances. In total, he made 82 appearances and scored 15 goals in the first division.

As a psychologist and official

Harttgen was initially employed as a graduate psychologist at SV Werder Bremen's youth development center before replacing the club's youth manager, Wolf Werner, in the summer of 2007. On July 5, 2007, Harttgen also succeeded Werner on the regional league committee as representative for the second teams of Bundesliga clubs. On 14…

Werder Bremen

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1991–92 Bundesliga: 1992–93 DFB-Pokal: 1990–91, 1993–94 DFB-Pokal finalist: 1989–90