Kurt Kresse

Kurt Kresse (15 May 1904 – 11 January 1945) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism.

He served as member of the district leadership of the KPD in Western Saxony and as chairman of the workers' sports club "Fichte West" in Leipzig.

After the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Kresse was arrested and spent time in prison and in Colditz concentration camp.

Kresse's tasks included rebuilding the underground KPD organization, making contacts with other anti-fascists and committing acts of sabotage against the war production.

He was sentenced to death by the People's Court in Dresden on 21 November 1944, and executed by hanging on 11 January 1945 in Dresden together with fellow resistance fighters Georg Schumann and Otto Engert.