Kurt van Haaren (19 July 1938 – 13 July 2005) was a German trade union leader. Born in Emmerich, van Haaren attended the Dortmund Social Academy, then began working for the Deutsche Bundespost, delivering mail. He joined the German Postal Union (DPG), and then in 1964 began working full-time for the union, as its Düsseldorf district secretary. In 1968, he became a financial secretary for the union in Frankfurt, and was also elected to the DPG's executive committee. From 1970, his work focused on employment law reform, and then from 1975, he was the union's lead on working conditions.