Birth Name: Lothar Herbert Matthäus
Place of Birth: Erlangen, Bavaria, West Germany
Date of Birth: 21 March 1961
Ethnicity: German
Family Background: Lothar Matthäus is a German football manager and former player. He is the most capped German player of all time (150 caps). Lothar has captained West Germany to victory in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, among other trophies.
Lothar is the son of Heinz Matthäus (Kark Heinz Hermann Matthäus) and Katharina Monika Lohmeier.
Lothar has four children and has been married five times.
Lothar’s paternal grandparents were Reidrich Wilhelm Ernst Matthäus and Berta Pauline Emma Scholz
Lothar’s maternal grandfather was Georg Albert Lohmeier (the son of Johan Georg Lohmeimer and Elizabeth Schmidt). Johan was the son of Georg Albert Lohmeier and Anna Maria Schmidt. Elizabeth was the daughter of Franz Schmidt and Margarete Belch.
A MyHeritage DNA test (https://footballdna.myheritage.com/lothar-matthaus/) stated that Lothar ’s genetic ancestry is:
24,7% North and West European24,3% English17,4% Baltic16,4% East European11,3% Balkan4,3% Ashkenazi Jewish 1,6% Iberian
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