Kurt Schlosser

Kurt Schlosser (18 October 1900 – 16 August 1944 in Dresden) was a German cabinet-maker, climber, and an active Communist.

He nevertheless built up a climbing group with some young, working-class sportsmen and was a member of the woodworkers' association and the "Naturfreunde" hiking club.

Since Schlosser was a member of the strike leadership in 1931, it was within the Workshops' power to exclude him, which led to him losing his job.

His cabinet-making workshop became a meeting place for resistance fighters who were struggling against the Nazi régime.

On 16 August 1944, Kurt Schlosser was beheaded in the courtyard of the Dresden State Court at Münchner Platz.

Kurt Schlosser memorial stone before the Hellerau German Workshops (Dresden); the caption simply reads "To our work colleague, the resistance fighter Kurt Schlosser, executed 16.8.1944"