Name Lothar Kurbjuweit Playing position Role Footballer | 1959–1965 BSG Traktor Seerhausen Height 1.80 m 1965–1968 Stahl Riesa Position Defender | |
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Date of birth (1950-11-06) 6 November 1950 (age 65) Current team Carl Zeiss Jena
(Director of Sport / Interim Manager) Team coached FC Carl Zeiss Jena (Manager, 2014–2014) | ||
Place of birth Riesa, East Germany | ||
Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 6 November 1950 in Riesa) is a former German footballer and football manager.
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Career
Kurbjuweit played for Stahl Riesa (1965–1970) and FC Carl Zeiss Jena (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.
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.