Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 6 November 1950 in Riesa) is a former German footballer and football manager. 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. References 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 People from Bezirk Dresden