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Roland Freisler

1893 - 1945

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Karl Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945) was a German jurist, judge and politician who served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1935 to 1942 and as President of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945. As a prominent ideologist of Nazism, he influenced as a jurist the Nazification of the German legal system. He was appointed President of the People's Court in 1942, overseeing the prosecution of political crimes as a judge and became known for his aggressive personality, his humiliation of defendants and frequent use of the death penalty in sentencing. A law student at Kiel University, Freisler joined the Imperial German Army on the outbreak of the First World War and saw action on the Eastern Front, where he was wounded and taken prisoner of war by the Imperial Russian Army. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roland Freisler is the 4th most popular judge, the 486th most popular biography from Germany (down from 455th in 2019) and the most popular German Judge.

Roland Freisler was a Nazi judge who presided over the People's Court and the Reich Criminal Court. He is most famous for presiding over the trials of members of the White Rose, a group of students who were executed for their anti-Nazi activities.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Roland Freisler ranks 4 out of 53. Before him are Deborah, Giovanni Falcone, and Adly Mansour. After him are Paolo Borsellino, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Maryanne Trump Barry, Fritz Bauer, Carlo Biotti, John Roberts, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, and Panagiotis Pikrammenos.

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Among people born in 1893, Roland Freisler ranks 20. Before him are Soong Ching-ling, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Draža Mihailović, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and Lazar Kaganovich. After him are Chaim Soutine, Harold Lloyd, Harold Urey, Karl Mannheim, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Palmiro Togliatti. Among people deceased in 1945, Roland Freisler ranks 41. Before him are Emil Hácha, Hermann Fegelein, Hans Krebs, Stefan Banach, Ernst Busch, and Friedrich Fromm. After him are Josef Kramer, Wied, Prince of Albania, Robert Ley, Hans Geiger, Giovanni Agnelli, and Odilo Globočnik.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Roland Freisler ranks 486 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573), Franz Brentano (1838), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Gregor Strasser (1892), and George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1582). After him are Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673), Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Josef Kramer (1906), and Franz Stuck (1863).

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Among JUDGES In Germany

Among judges born in Germany, Roland Freisler ranks 1. After him are Fritz Bauer (1903), Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), and Thomas Hoeren (1961).

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