In 1974, her pension was raised by about 400 Deutsche Marks. 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 decision was protested by a member of the Bavarian Landtag, but the protest was rejected by the state government. 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.Guido Knopp, Hitler's Hitmen, Sutton, 2002, pg. 251. In 1985, there was a scandal about her and other well-pensioned survivors of high-ranking Nazi officials. In 1997, aged 86, Freisler died. She was buried in Berlin in the Russegger family plot alongside her parents and her husband (Roland Freisler's name is not on his gravestone).
