Oswald Freisler

Oswald Freisler (born December 29, 1895 in Hameln , † March 4, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer during the Nazi era and brother of the later President of the People's Court, Roland Freisler .

Life

Freisler attended high school in Aachen and Kassel, where he graduated from high school in 1914. He studied in Kiel, Frankfurt a. M. and Göttingen law. In February 1924, he and his brother Roland opened a law firm in Kassel. Freisler joined the NSDAP in 1927 and was a member of the NS-Juristenbund , from 1933 its Gauführer in Kassel and a member of the Academy for German Law . In 1933 he became president of the Kassel Bar Association . In 1936 he took over the office of the Jewish lawyer Johannes Werthauer in Berlin.

On behalf of the Catholic Church , Freisler took over the defense of three co-defendants in the Berlin Catholic Trial against the main defendant Joseph C. Rossaint , a resistance fighter against National Socialism , and, much to the party's displeasure, achieved their acquittal. Joseph Goebbels then arranged for Hitler to personally expel Oswald Freisler from the NSDAP.

In 1939, Freisler died in an unexplained manner by suicide after he had been accused of irregularities in a defense and was therefore investigated against him.

publication

The system of honor penalties in the German past and in current law and the question of its right to exist. Göttingen [1921], law and political science dissertation from November 1, 1920

Individual evidence

↑ G. Buchheit: Judge in Red Robe. P. 277. Three versions are mentioned here. One says that he threw himself out of the window of his office, according to another, the incident is said to have taken place in prison. After the third version, he injected an overdose of insulin .

literature

Gert Buchheit : judge in red robe. Freisler, President of the People's Court . Munich: List, 1968; Pp. 12-13, 276-278.
Short biography with: Werner Schubert, Werner Schmid, Jürgen Regge: Academy for German Law, 1933–1945: minutes of the committees ; Volume 3, Family Law Committee, p. 43

Web links

Literature by and about Oswald Freisler in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Freisler, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and active member of the NSDAP
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH	March 4, 1939
Place of death	Berlin

[1] G. Buchheit: Judge in Red Robe. P. 277. Three versions are mentioned here. One says that he threw himself out of the window of his office, according to another, the incident is said to have taken place in prison. After the third version, he injected an overdose of insulin .