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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 1934 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 Germany's legal system. He attended the 1942 Wannsee Conference, the event which set the Holocaust in motion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roland Freisler has received more than 1,848,736 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Roland Freisler is the 4th most popular judge (down from 3rd in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Germany (down from 432nd 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, Fritz Bauer, John Roberts, John Marshall, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Earl Warren, and Maryanne Trump Barry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Roland Freisler ranks 16. Before him are Carol II of Romania, Alexander of Greece, Soong Ching-ling, Draža Mihailović, Chaim Soutine, and Lazar Kaganovich. After him are Harold Lloyd, Palmiro Togliatti, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Karl Mannheim, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and Paramahansa Yogananda. Among people deceased in 1945, Roland Freisler ranks 38. Before him are Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Hácha, Robert Ley, Hans Fischer, Stefan Banach, and Hans Krebs. After him are Giovanni Agnelli, Friedrich Fromm, Francis William Aston, Ernst Busch, Vladimir Vernadsky, and Franz Werfel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Roland Freisler ranks 455 out of 7,253. Before him are Conradin (1252), Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), Otto Frank (1889), Till Lindemann (1963), Ananda Mahidol (1925), and Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739). After him are Adam of Bremen (1100), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), and Rudolf Dassler (1898).

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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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