Kurt Schlosser

Who was Kurt Schlosser?

Kurt Schlosser was German cabinet-maker, climber, and an active Communist.

During his training in cabinet making, he lost an arm. 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.

Between 1919 and 1923, Schlosser worked as a polisher, stainer and assembler in the " Hellerau German Workshops", and was also a member of the works council there. In 1923, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, he belonged to the KPD factory cell and the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition at the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau. In 1930, he was finally rebuked as a Communist works councillor and barred from the woodworkers' association. Before the labour court, he struggled to keep working at the Workshops.

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. Not long afterwards, however, he had set up his own cabinet-making workshop on Leipziger Straße in Dresden. He was also leader of the singing company of the United Climbing Companies, which later became the "Sächsischer Bergsteigerchor 'Kurt Schlosser' Dresden".