Thomas Kretschmer (born 18 December 1955) is a German self-taught artist, specialising in carved wood "picture-images" (Bildschnitzer).Before and during 1989 he was a Christian civil rights activist and pacifist who received disproportionate attention from the security services over many years.
At various points between 1973 and 1985 he was held as a Political prisoner in the German Democratic Republic.