Ingrid Nargang

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Ingrid Nargang (1999)

Alice Ingrid Annemarie Nargang (born April 17, 1929 in Czernowitz , Kingdom of Romania ; † May 10, 2019 in Schärding , Austria ) was an Austrian lawyer and contemporary historian . From 1964 to 1993 she was head of the Engelhartszell District Court . She was the first woman to head a rural district court in Austria.

Life

Ingrid Nargang came from an old Austrian civil servant family. Her great-grandfather was the classical philologist and grammar school director Stefan Wolf, one grandfather was a lawyer. The family lived in Chernivtsi in Bukovina , which until the end of the First World War belonged to the Austrian monarchy as its own crown land, after which it fell to the Kingdom of Romania and is now part of the Ukraine (including Chernivtsi).

Nargang was born on April 17, 1929. She was raised by her mother and grandmother. The father left the family when she was two years old. In the summer of 1940, when Nargang was eleven years old at the time, the Soviet Union moved into northern Bukovina as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact and agreed with the German Reich to relocate the population of German origin. With his mother and grandmother, Nargang first moved to Lower Silesia , then to Upper Silesia . When the Russians approached towards the end of the Second World War , they fled to Upper Austria .

As so-called displaced persons and ethnic Germans living in Oberweis near Gmunden , Nargang attended the secondary school with the Kreuz Sisters in Gmunden from autumn 1945. After graduating from high school in 1948, she studied law in Innsbruck . In addition, she attended a high school graduate course at the commercial academy. In 1952 she received her doctorate in law. She then completed the judicial year and studied until 1955 economics . In 1959 she also received her doctorate in social and economic sciences. Before that, Nargang began working as a trainee lawyer in Linz and passed the bar exam. She then worked as a lawyer for the Linz City Administration.

In 1963 she was finally accepted as a judge. From 1964 until her retirement in 1993, Ingrid Nargang headed the Engelhartszell District Court . She was the first woman to head a rural Austrian district court .

As a contemporary historian , Nargang dealt with the history of the Bukowina Germans and the situation of the refugees in Upper Austria after the Second World War . She was also a founding member of the Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutsche in Linz .

Nargang lived in Engelhartszell , Linz and Vienna until the end . She passed away on May 10, 2019.

literature

  • Alice Ingrid Nargang , The refugees in Upper Austria, their situation and the status of their economic integration, dissertation at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck (1955).
  • Ingrid Nargang , The Germans from Bukovina: Origin - Resettlement, Flight - New Beginning (2013), ISBN 978-3-902350-47-3 .
  • Short biography and interview with DDr. Ingrid Nargang in Georg Grünstäudl , Judge Selection and Judge Training in System Comparison: Austria, Germany and Switzerland since 1945 (2018), ISBN 978-3-7046-7996-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State of Upper Austria - State Correspondence No. 249 of October 26, 2005. Retrieved on June 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d mourning for the woman council | Nachrichten.at. May 30, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nargang, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nargang, Alice Ingrid Annemarie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and contemporary historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2019
Place of death Schärding , Austria