Marion Freisler (née Russegger; 10 February 1910 – 21 January 1997[1]) 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.
[1] On 24 March 1928, she married Roland Freisler, who was a lawyer and city councillor of the Nazi Party in Kassel at the time.
The explanation given by the pension office was that had her husband survived the war, and not been executed, disbarred, or imprisoned by the military tribunals of the Allied countries, he presumably would have had a successful career as a lawyer or a senior judge.
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.
She was buried in Berlin in the Russegger family plot alongside her parents and her husband (Roland Freisler's name is not on the gravestone).