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Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945), a jurist, judge, and politician, served as the State Secretary of Germany's Reich Ministry of Justice from 1934 to 1942, and as President of the People's Court during World War II from 1942 until his death in a United States Army Air Forces bombing raid in 1945.
As a prominent ideologist of the Nazi Party, he influenced the Nazification of Germany's legal system as a jurist. He attended the Wannsee Conference, the 1942 event which set the Holocaust in motion. 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.
Although the death penalty was abolished with the creation of the Federal Republic in 1949, Freisler's 1941 definition of murder in German law, as opposed to the less severe crime of killing, survives in the reunited Germany's Strafgesetzbuch § 211.
Roland Freisler in Worldwar[]
Roland Freisler was deputy minister of the German Reich Ministry of Justice in 1963. The Race diplomat Felless met with him to discuss the spread of ginger from German-controlled territory to colonies controlled by the Race, implying that if Germany did not stop the problem, the Race would enable the smuggle of Tosevite drugs into the Reich. Freisler replied that any smugglers caught in the Reich would be subject to the maximum penalty prescribed by the People's Court. Felless understood this to mean the death penalty.
Felless told Freisler that his logic was laughable, making him very angry. When he said he was not accustomed to such rudeness, she replied she was not under his jurisdiction, and had no time to waste on fear. The savagery of the Nazis angered her, and she enjoyed making them angry whenever she could.[1]
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- ↑ Down to Earth, chapter 1.
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| Preceded by Otto Thierack |
Judge President of the People's Court 20 August 1942 – 3 February 1945 |
Succeeded by Harry Haffner |
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