He was not nominated for the GDR squad of his year, which was eliminated in the preliminary round of the UEFA youth tournament in Turkey in spring 1967.

In the 1970s, when the U-21s and U-23s sometimes played in parallel, the midfielder, who was now active at FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, was called up in eight matches for the GDR youth team.

[7] On 7 September 1977, he made his senior debut for the GDR national team in a 1-0 win against Scotland in East Berlin.

Lindemann was also immediately relegated with Weida, but was able to continue working with the team and led them back into the GDR league in 1987.

From July 1998 to 2003, Lindemann was almost exclusively active as a manager - briefly accompanied by a position as assistant coach under Holger Erler in spring 1999 - at FC Erzgebirge Aue.

However, he had to give up this post on 22 December 2007, as he was responsible for FC Carl Zeiss' poor table situation at the end of the first half of the 2007/08 season.

From January to June 2008, Lindemann worked as chief scout for FC Carl Zeiss Jena.

[10] On 24 September 2009, Lindemann was introduced as a "board member with responsibility for youth work" at the NRW league team Sportfreunde Siegen.

From 29 October 2009, Lindemann was responsible for the entire sporting area of Sportfreunde, on 29 March 2010 he also temporarily took over the post of chairman of the board.

[14] He also took over as manager of the Vala Superleague of Kosovo club in January 2017[15] before Ahmet Beselica succeeded him as Prishtina coach in August 2017.