Lothar Kurbjuweit


Lothar Kurbjuweit is a former German footballer and football manager.

Career

Kurbjuweit played for Stahl Riesa and FC Carl Zeiss Jena.

International career

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

Coaching career

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.

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.