Jürgen Kurbjuhn

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Jürgen Kurbjuhn
Personal information
Full name	Jürgen Kurbjuhn
Date of birth	July 26, 1940
Place of birth	Tilsit, Germany
Height	186 cm
Nickname	Kubbi
Position	fullback
Club information
Current club	retired
Youth clubs
	Buxtehuder SV
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1960-1963 1963-1972	Hamburger SV (OL Nord) Hamburger SV (BL)	74 (1) 242 (10)
National team**
1962 - 1966	West Germany	5 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 30, 1973. ** National team caps and goals correct as of June 30, 1973.

Jürgen Kurbjuhn (born July 26, 1940 in the town of Tilsit) is a former German football player.

Kurbjuhn had excelled as a youth-international for West Germany during his time with amateur club Buxtehuder SV and joined Hamburg's biggest, Hamburger SV, in 1960 when the club had just been crowned German football champion. In 1961 he was part of the Hamburg side reaching the semi-final of the European Cup against Barcelona and part of the 1963 German Cup winning side of the club. He retired, because of injury, after ten goals in 242 Bundesliga matches in 1972.

His West Germany career lasted for only five matches in the space of April 1962 to May 1966, allowing him to stay unused by Sepp Herberger at the 1962 FIFA World Cup but keeping him off another participation as he did not make it into the squad of Herberger's successor Helmut Schön for the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He played his last international on May 4, 1966, when the West Germans beat Ireland 4-0 in a friendly.

From 1988 he owned an insurance company in Buxtehude.

	West Germany squad - 1962 World Cup Quarter-finalist
1 Tilkowski | 2 Erhardt | 3 Schnellinger | 4 Schulz | 5 Wilden | 6 Szymaniak | 7 Koslowski | 8 Haller | 9 Seeler | 10 Brülls | 11 Schäfer | 12 Nowak | 13 Kurbjuhn | 14 Werner | 15 Giesemann | 16 Sturm | 17 Kraus | 18 Herrmann | 19 Strehl | 20 Vollmar | 21 Sawitzki | 22 Fahrian | Coach: Herberger