Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 6 November 1950 in Riesa) is a former German footballer and football manager.

Club Career

Kurbjuweit played for Stahl Riesa (1965–1970) and Carl Zeiss Jena (1970–1983).

International career

On the national level Kurbjuweit played for the East Germany national team (66 matches/four goals), and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Coaching career

Kurbjuweit later began coaching and led several teams, including Carl Zeiss Jena, Rot-Weiß Erfurt and VfB Pößneck. Kurbjuweit was from 1996 between 1999 the club chairman of Carl Zeiss Jena. On 22 April 2010, he signed a contract as Director of Sport with his former club 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.