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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 1,714,360 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Roland Freisler is the 3rd most popular judge, the 432nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 423rd 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 3 out of 41. Before him are Deborah and Giovanni Falcone. After him are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Adly Mansour, Paolo Borsellino, Fritz Bauer, Georg Konrad Morgen, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, John Marshall, Earl Warren, and Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Roland Freisler ranks 14. Before him are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Walter Ulbricht, Carol II of Romania, Alexander of Greece, Soong Ching-ling, and Lazar Kaganovich. After him are Draža Mihailović, Karl Mannheim, Harold Lloyd, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Damdin Sükhbaatar, and George Grosz. Among people deceased in 1945, Roland Freisler ranks 40. Before him are Emil Hácha, Ernst Busch, Robert Ley, Francis William Aston, Hans Krebs, and Oskar Dirlewanger. After him are Hans Fischer, Josef Kramer, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Käthe Kollwitz, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, and Stefan Banach.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Roland Freisler ranks 432 out of 6,142. Before him are Gerhard Richter (1932), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), Johann Georg Faust (1480), and Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795). After him are Victoria of Baden (1862), Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808), Albrecht Kossel (1853), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), and Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750).

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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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