Ingrid Petrik

Ingrid Petrik (born November 24, 1935 ) is an Austrian lawyer and former senior judge . Petrik was the first woman president of the Administrative Court from 1988 to 1991 and from 1986 to 1988 also the first woman to be its vice-president and the first female highest judge in Austria.

Career

Ingrid Petrik was born on November 24, 1935 and attended a humanistic grammar school, where she graduated from high school in 1953 . She then began studying law at the University of Vienna . On May 25, 1961 doctorate them at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna to the doctor of rights ( Dr. iur. ). The court practice graduated Ingrid Petrik of August 1, 1961 to June 30, 1963, various Viennese courts.

On October 1, 1963, Ingrid Petrik entered the service of the Federal Ministry of the Interior as a contract employee , where she became a consultant in the department for general administrative police matters, an organizational unit of the General Directorate for Public Security . On January 1, 1966, she was appointed ministerial commissioner, on July 1, 1968, she was promoted to senior ministerial commissioner and on July 1, 1971, to ministerial secretary. From July 1, 1975, Petrik headed the department as a section council. On January 1, 1980, she was appointed Ministerialrat and on January 1, 1984 she took over the management of Group II / E (administrative police) of the Federal Ministry.

During her time as a group leader in the Ministry of the Interior with responsibility, among other things, for the control of arms exports, the Noricum scandal occurred in connection with illegal arms deliveries by the Austrian company Noricum to the then warring parties Iraq and Iran . Petrik later testified before the parliamentary committee of inquiry of the Austrian National Council that he had never seen a fax from the then Austrian ambassador in Athens , Herbert Amry , in which he had warned against illegal arms sales. She was prosecuted for this statement before the investigative committee and the same testimony as a witness in the Noricum trial at the Linz Regional Court and on December 12, 1991, the Vienna Regional Criminal Court sentenced her to a partial fine for false evidence .

On January 1, 1986, Ingrid Petrik was appointed as the first woman to be Vice-President of the Administrative Court at the suggestion of the SPÖ . She was the first woman ever to become a member of one of the three Austrian supreme courts (VwGH, VfGH and OGH). In December 1987, following the surprising death of the previous VwGH President Viktor Heller, she was appointed the first female VwGH President, initially continuing to head the two Senates, which she had already chaired as Vice-President. In 1991 she retired as VwGH President.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Personalia . In: The right of work (DRdA) . 38th year, no. 139 , 1988, pp. 77 ( online on the DRdA website [PDF]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ingrid Petrik first vice-president in the administrative court (in the midday journal on Ö1 ; article from 24:48 min.) From January 16, 1986 in the online archive of the Austrian media library .
3. ↑ Around 250 convictions annually for false testimony. In: derStandard.at . August 23, 2007, accessed July 30, 2019 . 
4. ^ Roman David-Freihsl: Portrait: The Man Who Had Sinowatz Extradited. In: derStandard.at . July 30, 2008, accessed July 30, 2019 .