Kurt Gossweiler (November 5, 1917, Stuttgart – May 15, 2017, Berlin) was a German Marxist–Leninist historian and economist specializing in the history and economic structure of fascism.
After graduating from high school he studied economics in Berlin and later became a member of the Reich Labour Service.
After the start of the Second World War Gossweiler was drafted in to the Wehrmacht and in 1943 he defected to the Red Army and attended an anti-fascist school.
He defended Joseph Stalin and stated that the purges of the 1930s had saved the Soviet Union from a "fifth column" and thus secured victory in World War II.
A set of articles written by Kurt Gossweiler during the 1970-1980s were pusblished in 2006 by the french editorial Editions Aden, with a foreword by the historian and communist activist Annie Lacroix-Riz.