Lothar Kurbjuweit


Lothar Kurbjuweit is a former German footballer and football manager.

Club career

Kurbjuweit played for Stahl Riesa and FC [Carl Zeiss Jena|Carl Zeiss Jena].

International career

On the national level Kurbjuweit played for the East Germany national team, and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Coaching career

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

Personal life

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.