Lothar Kurbjuweit

Lothar Kurbjuweit

Kurbjuweit in 1974
Personal information
Date of birth	(1950-11-06) 6 November 1950 (age 66)
Place of birth	Riesa, East Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Defender
Youth career
1959–1965	BSG Traktor Seerhausen
1965–1968	Stahl Riesa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1968–1970	Stahl Riesa	35	(0)
1970–1983	Carl Zeiss Jena	357	(26)
1983–1984	Hallescher FC Chemie	23	(0)
National team
1970–1981	East Germany	66	(4)
Teams managed
1984	Carl Zeiss Jena II (Assistant coach)
1984–1989	Carl Zeiss Jena
1989–1992	Rot-Weiß Erfurt
1992–1996	Carl Zeiss Jena U-19
1996–1999	Carl Zeiss Jena (Chairman)
2003–2004	VfB Pößneck
2005	VfB Pößneck
2006–2009	1. FC Nuremberg (Scout)
2010–2011	Carl Zeiss Jena (Director of Sport)
2011	Carl Zeiss Jena (interim)
2014	Carl Zeiss Jena
Honours Representing  East Germany Men’s Football Munich 1972 Team Competition Montreal 1976 Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 6 November 1950 in Riesa) is a former German footballer and football manager.

Kurbjuweit played for Stahl Riesa (1965–1970) and FC Carl Zeiss Jena (1970–1983).

On the national level he played for East Germany national team (66 matches/four goals), and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

He later began coaching and led several teams, including FC Carl Zeiss Jena, Rot-Weiss Erfurt and VfB Pößneck. Kurbjuweit was from 1996 between 1999 the club Chairman of FC Carl Zeiss Jena. On 22 April 2010 he signed a contract as Director of Sport with his former club FC Carl Zeiss Jena.

Kurbjuweit is married with the former long jumper Birgit Grimm and has a son with her Tobias who is a professional footballer. In the year 1992 he was named new business executive of Honda Präsent in Jena-Göschwitz and worked for the Carcenter between 2006.