Ludwig Kotzebue

Ludwig Kotzebue

Kotzebue (left) in 1977
Personal information
Born	1946 (age 70–71)
Sport
Sport	Karate
Medal record Representing the  Netherlands World Championships 1975 Long Beach Kumite team 1977 Tokyo Kumite team 1980 Madrid Kumite team European Championships 1977 Paris Kumite open World Games 1981 Santa Clara Kumite +80 kg

Ludwig Kotzebue (born 1946) is a retired Dutch-Surinamese heavyweight karateka. He won individual gold medals at the 1977 European Championships and 1981 World Games, and a team gold at the 1977 World Championships, together with Otti Roethof and John Reeberg.

After retiring from competitions and until 2011 Kotzebue worked as a karate teacher in Amsterdam. In the mid-1990s, for two and half years he was the head coach of the Dutch karate team.