Lothar Kurbjuweit
Lothar Kurbjuweit ( born November 6, 1950 in Seerhausen ) is a former German football player and current football coach. In his career he played for the BSG Stahl Riesa, FC Carl Zeiss Jena and Halle FC chemistry in the GDR Oberliga. He is 66 -fold GDR national team.
Career
As a player
Lothar Kurbjuweit played at the beginning of his career from 1959 in Seerhausen in the BSG Traktor under coach Heinz Ebermannsdorf. While still a student, he moved in 1965 to the nearby BSG Stahl Riesa. In 1967, he finally played his first of 18 junior internationals. As Riesa in 1968 rose to the highest DDR - Oberliga class football, he played already as a 17 -year-old his first top-flight. At age 19, he was on 16 May 1970 the first time in the senior team in the encounter Poland - East Germany (1-1) used on the position of the left central defender. At the same time, he joined in a job training from an apprenticeship as a fitter and a high school.
As an international, he was therefore no longer be maintained at an operating sports community. Coach Georg Buschner, who was also coach of the triple GDR soccer champion FC Carl Zeiss Jena, thought highly of the 1.80 -meter defender and prompted the change Kurbjuweits at the beginning of the 1970/71 season to Jena. Until then Kurbjuweit had played 35 league games for Riesa. He could win with Jena no more championship titles, but caught up in the years 1972, 1974 and 1980 with his team the GDR football trophy, was every time in the final squad.
In addition to the Cup win was in 1974 was also in other respects for Kurbjuweit important. For the first time the GDR national team had qualified for the World Cup finals. Kurbjuweit part of the squad and played four of the six meetings, among other things, he was present at the legendary 1-0 victory over the DFB. Overall Kurbjuweit maintained 66 A- international appearances, added eleven games with the youth team. As early as 1972 he had been successful with the Olympic team that won the bronze medal in 1972. He was four years later outbid by winning the Olympic gold medal in Montreal yet this success. Overall, it was 13 times in official games of the Olympic team.
The successful performance in the national cup and in the league and FC Carl Zeiss came to international matches in European Cup competitions. Here Kurbjuweit came on 55 missions and is therefore in this respect so far Most games of Jena. He was also in the team, the 1981 Cup Winners' Cup final in the competition reached, but lost 1:2 against Dinamo Tbilisi.
With the end of the 1983 season ended Kurbjuweit at the age of 32 years, his career as an active soccer player in Jena, after he had completed 408 duty games there ( Oberliga 299, DDR - Cup: 54 European Cup: 55, total 39 goals). In recent years, he was usually used as a defensive player, but he played as his cup finals always in midfield. For one year Kurbjuweit played in the 1983/84 season yet for Halle FC chemistry, where he played his last 23 league games. So he came to a total of 357 top-flight appearances and is thus ranked 11th DDR Oberliga ranking.
As coach
In the summer of 1984 Kurbjuweit, who had been trained as a certified physical education teacher began his career as a football coach. He stayed in Jena and was first assistant coach of the second team of FC Carl Zeiss. On October 4, 1984, he broke Dietmar Pfeifer from as head coach of the league team and could still improve the team of 11 place to number 7 to the end of the season. Apart from 3rd place in the following season could Kurbjuweit FC Carl Zeiss not decisively advance, so he in turn was sacked after the first round of the 1989/90 season. He then took over for one and a half years as coach at FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. Then Kurbjuweit returned to Jena and trained there volunteer the juniors of FC Carl Zeiss. In 1996 he was president of the club for a short time. From July 2003 to September 2004 and June to December 2005 Kurbjuweit worked as coach of VfB Pössneck in the big leagues before he announced his contract because of poor sporting and financial position of the Pößnecker to go as a player observer 1 FC Nuremberg.
June 1, 2010 took over Kurbjuweit as successor by Heiko Weber, the Office of the sporting director of FC Carl Zeiss Jena; of this task, he was released on April 20, 2011. From 1 July 2011, he supervised the second team of FC Carl Zeiss Jena, where it replaces Michael Junker.
On 30 October 2011, the FC Carl Zeiss Jena announced that Kurbjuweit would take over as coach after the dismissal of Heiko Weber interim basis. November 7, 2011 Petrik Sander was set as the new head coach.
Private
Lothar Kurbjuweit married in 1980, the then Jena long jumper Birgit Grimm. After German reunification, he built up a new professional existence and in 1992 was managing partner of a car dealership in Jena Göschwitz. His son Tobias was also football players, started in Jena and then played among others at FC St. Pauli and 1 FC Magdeburg.