Roland Freisler
However, on 29 July 1944, Hassell was arrested by the Gestapo for his involvement in the 20 July plot, something that he had foreseen. On 8 September, after a two-day trial at the German People's Court ("Volksgerichtshof"), over which Roland Freisler presided, he was sentenced to death and executed the same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.