Lothar Kurbjuweit

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Lothar Kurbjuweit
Lothar Kurbjuweit World Cup 1974.jpg
Lothar Kurbjuweit (1974)
Personnel
birthday November 6, 1950
place of birth Seerhausen ,  GDR
size 180 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1959-1965 BSG tractor Seerhausen
1965-1968 BSG Stahl Riesa
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1970 BSG Stahl Riesa 35 0(5)
1970-1983 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 299 (21)
1983-1984 Hallescher FC Chemie 23 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1967-1969 GDR U-18 29 (1)
1969-1972 DDR U-23 9 (0)
1979-1980 DDR U-21 8 (1)
1972-1976 DDR Olympia 13 (1)
1970-1981 GDR 66 (4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1984-1989 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
1990-1991 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
2003-2004 VfB Pößneck
2005 VfB Pößneck
2011-2014 FC Carl Zeiss Jena II
2011 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
2014 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
1 Only league games are given.

Lothar Kurbjuweit (born November 6, 1950 in Seerhausen ) is a former German soccer player and today's soccer coach. In his career he played for BSG Stahl Riesa , FC Carl Zeiss Jena and Halleschen FC Chemie in the GDR's top league . He is 66 times GDR national team.

Career

As a player

At the beginning of his career, Lothar Kurbjuweit played from 1959 in Seerhausen at BSG Traktor under coach Heinz Ebermann. While still at school, he moved to the nearby BSG Stahl Riesa in 1965 . In 1967 he played his first of a total of 29 international junior matches for the U-18s of the GDR . In the youth competitions of friendship , the East German selection came third with Kurbjuweit in Hungary in the summer of 1968. At the UEFA youth tournament , the unofficial European youth championship these days, in the spring of 1969, the DFV-U-18 won the silver medal as host.

When Stahl Riesa was promoted to the top league football league in the GDR in 1968, he played his first games in the upper house at the age of 17. At the age of 19 he was used on May 16, 1970 for the first time in the senior national team in the encounter Poland - GDR (1: 1) on the position of the left central defender. At the same time, he completed an apprenticeship as a fitter and graduated from high school in part-time training.

As a national player, he was no longer to be kept in a company sports association and was intended for a delegation to a football club . National coach Georg Buschner , who was also the coach of the three-time GDR soccer champion FC Carl Zeiss Jena , believed in the 1.80 meter tall defender and prompted Kurbjuweit to move to Jena at the beginning of the 1970/71 season. By then Kurbjuweit had played 35 league games for Riesa. Although he could no longer win championship titles with Jena. The defensive force won the GDR soccer cup with his team in 1972, 1974 and 1980 and was in the FCC starting line-up in all three finals.

In addition to winning the cup, 1974 was also significant for Kurbjuweit in other ways. For the first time, the GDR national team had qualified for a World Cup finals. Kurbjuweit was part of the squad and played four of the six matches, including the legendary 1-0 win over the DFB selection. In total, Kurbjuweit made 66 international appearances for the A, or 59 games according to FIFA's interpretation . There are also 17 games (one goal) with the youth team . As a 29-year-old actor, Kurbjuweit supported the East German talents in their U-21 European Championship title in 1980 . Eight years earlier he had already been successful in the Olympic selection , which had won the bronze medal at the Games in Munich . He was able to outdo this success in 1976 by winning the Olympic gold medal in Montreal. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In total, he was on the field 13 times in official Olympic games.

Thanks to its successful performance in the national cup and the major league, FC Carl Zeiss also played in international matches in the European cup competitions . Here Kurbjuweit came to 55 missions and is in this regard so far the record player of the Jenaer. He was also in the team that reached the final of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981 , but lost 2-1 to Dinamo Tbilisi.

At the end of the 1983 season, Kurbjuweit ended his career as an active soccer player in Jena at the age of 32, after completing 408 competitive games there (Oberliga: 299, GDR Cup: 54, European Cup: 55, a total of 39 goals). In recent years he has usually been used as a defender, but he has always played his cup finals in midfield, for example. Kurbjuweit played for one year in the 1983/84 season for Halleschen FC Chemie , where he played his last 23 league games. He came to a total of 357 first division games and is 11th in the ranking of those kickers with the most league appearances.

As a trainer

In the summer of 1984 Kurbjuweit, who was already trained as a qualified sports teacher, began his career as a football coach. He stayed in Jena and was initially the assistant coach of the second team at FC Carl Zeiss. On October 4, 1984 he replaced Dietmar Pfeifer as head coach of the league team and was able to improve the team from 11th place to 7th place at the end of the season. Apart from third place in the following season Kurbjuweit could not significantly advance FC Carl Zeiss, so that he was dismissed in the fall of 1989 in 13th place. He then took over as coach at FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt for a year and a half . Then Kurbjuweit returned to Jena and volunteered to train the juniors of FC Carl Zeiss. In 1996 he was briefly president of the club. From July 2003 to September 2004 and from June to December 2005 Kurbjuweit was the coach of VfB Pößneck in the major league , before he canceled his contract because of the poor sporting and financial situation of the Pößneck to go to 1. FC Nürnberg as a player observer .

June 1st, 2010 Kurbjuweit took over the post of sports director at FC Carl Zeiss Jena as the successor to Heiko Weber ; he was released from this position on April 20, 2011. From July 1, 2011, he was in charge of the second team at FC Carl Zeiss Jena , replacing Michael Junker. In the meantime, after the dismissal of Heiko Weber on October 30, 2011, he took over the interim coaching position of the first team for a week. On April 13, 2014, he was again interim coach of the first team in the Regionalliga. On May 30, 2014, FC Carl Zeiss Jena announced that they wanted to contest the 2014/15 regional league season with Kurbjuweit as head coach after the originally signed Patrick van Kets had canceled. After three unsuccessful games, the Jena President, his former teammate Lutz Lindemann , relieved him of his office and the former FCC professional Karsten Hutwelker , who was initially brought in as assistant coach in the summer, became the new head coach.

Private

In 1980 Lothar Kurbjuweit married the then Jena long jumper Birgit Grimm. After German reunification, he built up a new professional life and in 1992 became managing partner of a car dealership in Jena-Göschwitz. His son Tobias also became a soccer player, started in Jena and then played at FC St. Pauli and 1. FC Magdeburg .

literature

Web links

Commons : Lothar Kurbjuweit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: East Germany - All-Time Most Matches Played in Oberliga . RSSSF.com . September 4, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kurbjuweit, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Seerhausen