Some things in the day-to-day life at Deutsche Werkstätten are even more extraordinary than our interior outfitting work which itself is unique. We have not yet had a memorial on our To-Do list. Since 27 September 2024, however, this has changed. On this date, a memorial to company founder Karl Schmidt was unveiled in Zschopau.

At the beginning of 2023, Zschopau hobby chronicler Carsten Beier, businessman Robert Haehnel (Kinaree), Mayor of Zschopau, Arne Sigmund, Peter Peschel from the Hellerau Citizens' Association, Karl Schmidt's grandson, Klaus Schmidt-Hellerau, and Deutsche Werkstätten came together to honour Karl Schmidt's visionary ideas which are still relevant today.

Born of this collaboration is a place to linger in Zschopau which, among other things, points out that the roots of generators of big ideas are often anchored in small towns and rural areas. The group decided on a memorial that shows a replica of one of the first machine-made chairs from 1906.

Deutsche Werkstätten assumed responsibility for financing and preparing the data required for the bronze casting. The high-quality bronze sculpture stands in front of the house where Karl Schmidt was born, Ludwig-Würkert-Straße 7, and will in future be part of the Zschopau guided tours.