Gertrud Jaklin

Gertrud Hildegard Jaklin (born April 6, 1916 in Vienna as Gertrud Hildegard Sollinger ; † December 9, 1998 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer and judge . Jaklin, together with Johanna Kundmann, was one of the first two women to be appointed judge in Austria in 1947.

Origin, education and private life

Gertrud Jaklin was born on April 6, 1916 in Vienna as the daughter of the technical officer Franz Sollinger from Cracow and his wife Walburga (née Richter) from Budapest. She attended the humanistic Seipel-Gymnasium (today's GRG Wien XII Rosasgasse) in the 12th  Viennese district of Meidling , where she passed the matriculation examination on October 1, 1936 . Subsequently, in 1937, she began studying law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . On July 17, 1942, she received her doctorate in law , and on May 26, 1944, she passed the Great State Examination under German law .

In 1952 Gertrud Jaklin married G. Friedrich Jaklin, a special education teacher who was born in 1915. It is not known whether the couple had children.

Professional background

Even before completing her studies, Gertrud Jaklin was hired on September 5, 1940 in the judicial preparatory service. On October 1, 1940, she was appointed as a court trainee under German law . After taking the Grand State Examination in 1944, she was an assessor . On May 30, 1944, Gertrud Jaklin was given a "civil servant relationship on revocation according to Section 7 of the Career Ordinance ”and took up this position on June 15. In April 1945 she reported back to work. After the end of National Socialism in Austria , Jaklin was appointed assistant judge in the Vienna Higher Regional Court in February 1947 in the 1st class of judges. In July 1947, she finally made a pledge of loyalty to the Republic of Austria and on August 13, 1947, at the same time as Johanna Kundmann (she was in the district of the Linz Higher Regional Court ), she was one of the first two women in Austria to be judge of the first professional group at the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters Vienna appointed.

Subsequently, Gertrud Jaklin worked as a judge at the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters, the Youth Court and the Inner City District Court . During this time, non-dispute law emerged as a specialist area . In 1959 she was appointed higher regional judge, in 1970 she was promoted to deputy head of the Innere Stadt district court. In July 1974 he finally changed again as chairwoman of the non-disputed senate at the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters in Vienna. In this judicial office, Gertrud Jaklin finally entered permanent retirement on April 5, 1976. She died on December 9, 1998 in Vienna.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Lilian Hofmeister : Jaklin, Gertrud Hildegard, born. Sollinger . In: Ilse Korotin , Nastasja Stupnicki (ed.): Biographies of important Austrian women scientists . Böhlau Verlag , 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20238-7 , pp. 417-418 ( PDF download from oapen.org ).
2. ↑ Alfons Dür: The woman in justice. Historical Notes on an Important Subject . In: Association of Austrian Judges (ed.): Österreichische Richterzeitung (RZ) . No. 12/2007 , December 1, 2007, p. 264-269 .
3. ↑ Lilian Hofmeister : The lawyer in justice. A critical inventory of the situation of women as judges in Austria - prospects for the future . In: The jurist in Austrian legal life - 40 years of female judges in Austria, meeting of the ministerial working group for the equal treatment of female employees in the justice department December 10 and 11, 1987 (=  series of publications by the Federal Ministry of Justice . Volume 50 ). 1990, p. 53 .
4. ^ Austria's first female judge. In:  Wiener Kurier. Published by the American armed forces for the population of Vienna , August 22, 1947, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).