Marion Freisler
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Marion Freisler (10 February 1910 - 21 January 1997), née Russegger was the wife of Roland Freisler, the infamous judge and chairman of the Nazi Volksgerichtshof (People's court), who died in 1945 during an air raid in Berlin. They were married on 28 March 1928 and had two sons, Harald and Roland.
In 1985 there was a scandal about the widow who had been living under her maiden name, Marion Russegger, in Munich since the end of World War II. It turned out that in 1974 her pension had been raised by about 400 DM. The reason given by the appropriate pension office was that her deceased husband in the event of survival presumably would have been hired as a lawyer or a high ranking official. This decision was protested by a member of the Landtag of Bavaria but the move was rejected by the state government without any consequences for Marion Freisler (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Anna Freisler). This was one of the last incidents connected with the problematic issue of social integration of National Socialist jurists in the Federal Republic of Germany in the early years.[1]
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- Guido Knopp, Hitler's Hitmen, Sutton Publishing, 2002, chapter "The Hanging Judge", pp. 213-251.
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- ^ Guido Knopp, Hitler's Hitmen, Sutton, 2002, p. 251.
