Roland Freisler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roland Freisler

German lawyer and judge

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1893

Place of Birth: Celle, Germany

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1945

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945) was a German Nazi jurist, judge, and politician who served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1934 to 1942 and President of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945. Freisler was a prominent ideologist of National Socialism who influenced the Nazification of Germany's legal system as a jurist, and attended the Wannsee Conference which set in motion the Holocaust.
Freisler was appointed President of the People's Court in 1942, overseeing the prosecution of notable political crimes as a judge, for which he became infamous for his aggressive personality, humiliation of defendants, and frequent sentencing of the death penalty.