Life
He was the son of Theodore Froessel and Barbara Froessel. He graduated LL.B. in 1913, and LL.M. in 1914, from New York Law School. During World War I he served in the U.S. Navy with the rank of lieutenant.
He was Counsel to the Sheriff of Queens County from 1916 to 1920. He was Assistant District Attorney of Queens County from 1924 to 1930. On June 1, 1927, he married Elsie Stier (d. 1952). He was Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in charge of slum clearance projects in New York City from 1935 to 1937.
In January 1937, he was appointed a justice of the City Court in Queens County. In November 1937, he was elected to the New York Supreme Court (2nd District).
An active Freemason Froessel served as Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York for two terms, 1944 and 1945. (reference: A Masonic Portrait of the Empire State: New Millennium Commemorative Edition, Grand Lodge of New York, F&AM, 2000, New York City.) Froessel's "mother lodge" was Tadmor Lodge No. 923, founded in Ridgewood, Brooklyn, in 1914, but presently meeting in Astoria, Queens, New York. Froessel became a third-degree Mason and signed the by-laws of Tadmor Lodge on October 2, 1919, identifying his occupation as "lawyer" and his address as "230 Olmsted Place, Brooklyn," (reference: Records of Tadmor Lodge No. 923 F&AM) now 71st Street in Glendale, Queens, New York. (reference: http://stevemorse.org/census/changes/QueensChanges1_OtoQ.htm) He was the Master of Tadmor Lodge in 1926 when it dedicated its own Masonic Temple on Summerfield Street in Ridgewood. His five brothers joined the lodge that year.
In 1949, he ran on the Democratic and Liberal tickets to the New York Court of Appeals. He retired from the bench at the end of 1962 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.
He died in St. Vincent's Hospital (Manhattan).
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