Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 6 November 1950 in

Riesa Riesa is a town in the district of Meißen in Saxony, Germany. It is located on the river Elbe, approximately northwest of Dresden. History The name ''Riesa'' is derived from Slavic ''Riezowe''. This name, romanised as "Rezoa", appears first i ...

) is a former

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er and football manager.

Career

Kurbjuweit played for Stahl Riesa (1965–1970) and

FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Ober ...

(1970–1983).

International career

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 The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the ...

Coaching career

He later began coaching and led several teams, including

, Rot-Weiss Erfurt and VfB Pößneck. Kurbjuweit was from 1996 between 1999 the club Chairman of

. On 22 April 2010 he signed a contract as Director of Sport with his former club

Personal life

Kurbjuweit is married with the former long jumper Birgit Grimm and has a son with her

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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.Jena-Legende Kurbjuweit "Halbes Leben im Stadion verbracht"
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurbjuweit, Lothar 1950 births Living people German footballers East German footballers 1974 FIFA World Cup players Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of East Germany Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany German football managers FC Carl Zeiss Jena players FC Carl Zeiss Jena managers Hallescher FC players East Germany international footballers Olympic medalists in football FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt managers DDR-Oberliga players Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics 3. Liga managers Association football defenders People from Riesa Footballers from Saxony