Friedrich Weißler

(Georg) Friedrich Weißler (born 28 April 1891 in Königshütte, Upper Silesia; died 19 February 1937 at Sachsenhausen concentration camp) was a German lawyer and judge.

In February 1933, in a criminal case he was judging, Weißler sentenced an SA (storm trooper) man, who appeared illegally in court in full uniform, to a small fine for improper behavior.

A short time later, a group of SA men assaulted Weißler in his office, beating and kicking him.

Presenting him to an aroused mob on the balcony of the district court, they forced Weißler to salute a swastika flag.

Starting November 1934 as legal advisor for the opposition, he helped Inundate old-Prussian state bishop Ludwig Müller and his minions with a wave of litigation in the ordinary courts, contesting Müller's arbitrary measures that violated the church constitution (Kirchenordnung).

[10] On Pentecost 1936 (31 May), the second Preliminary Church Executive prepared a “memorandum” (Denkschrift) to Adolf Hitler, also to be read from the pulpits on 23 August 1936, condemning anti-Semitism, Nazi concentration camps and state terrorism.

[12] If blood, race, nationhood and honour are given the rank of eternal values, so the Evangelical Christian is compelled by the First Commandment, to oppose that judgement.

[14] On 7 October 1936, the Gestapo arrested Weißler and two “Aryan” assistants who also worked for the Confessing Church — erroneously accusing them of passing the memorandum into the hands of foreign media.