Margarete Haimberger-Tanzer

Last updated

Margarete Charlotte Haimberger-Tanzer (25 May 1916, Vienna - 1987) [1] was an Austrian lawyer, prosecutor and judge. Haimberger-Tanzer was the first woman to serve as a criminal judge at a court in the Republic of Austria and one of the first female judges in Austrian legal history. [2] In 1950, Margarete Haimberger was appointed as the first woman criminal judge and thereby initially transferred to the district court Bad Ischl. A year later, she returned to the Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters, where she was the first examining magistrate and in 1956 was the first woman chairing a Schöffenverhandlung. [3]

Related Research Articles

Anna of Tyrol 17th century Holy Roman Empress and Archduchess of Austria

Anna of Tyrol, was by birth Archduchess of Austria and member of the Tyrolean branch of the House of Habsburg and by marriage Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Queen of Hungary.

Johanna Müller-Hermann was an Austrian composer and pedagogue.

Claudia Felicitas of Austria 17th century Holy Roman Empress

Claudia Felicitas of Austria was by birth an Archduchess of Austria and by marriage Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess consort of Austria, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia as the second wife of Leopold I.

Margarete Hilferding

Margarete Hilferding, born Hönigsberg was an Austrian physician and psychoanalyst.

Julia Arnall was a German-born British-based actress.

Sophie or Sofie Lazarsfeld was an Austrian-American therapist and writer, a student of Alfred Adler.

Alma Stephanie Wittlin, Alma S. Wittlin, was an Austrian writer. Her surname also appears as Wittlin-Frischauer.

Brigitte Bierlein Chancellor of Austria

Brigitte Bierlein is an Austrian former jurist who served as Chancellor of Austria from June 2019 to January 2020. An Independent, she was the first female Chancellor of Austria.

Johanna Pauline Alexandrine Kundmann was an Austrian lawyer and judge. In 1947, Kundmann, together with Gertrud Jaklin, was one of the first two women who were appointed judges in Austria. Johanna Kundmann subsequently worked as a judge on various courts in the district of the Oberlandesgericht Linz and was also appointed to the Appellate Court.

Gertrud Hildegard Jaklin was an Austrian lawyer and judge. Jaklin together with Johanna Kundmann in 1947 was one of the first two women who were appointed judge in Austria. After the end of National Socialism in Austria, Jaklin was appointed in February 1947 assistant judge in the Higher Regional Court of Vienna in the first class of judges. Subsequently, Gertrud Jaklin worked as a judge at the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters, at the Juvenile Court and at the District Court of Innere Stadt.

Friederike Zeileis was an Austrian women's right's activist and one of the founding members of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance. She was also involved in the founding and implementation of the Vienna Settlement Movement, serving in various capacities on its board from 1901 to 1932.

Ernestine Diwisch was an Austrian political activist (KPÖ). After 1938 she became caught up in anti-government resistance. She was arrested and taken to Berlin where she faced the special People's Court. She was convicted and sentenced to death on 8 February 1944. She was taken back to Vienna and executed on the guillotine that had been installed at the city's district court complex shortly after the German National Socialists had taken control of Austria.

Erika Weinzierl

Erika Weinzierl was an Austrian historian, gender researcher, and historian of Nazism. A member of the Austrian People's Party and the Curatorium of the Austrian Mauthausen Committee, she was the second director of the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna, succeeding Ludwig Jedlicka. Weinzierl was a recipient of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, the Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften, the Benemerenti medal, and the Theodor Körner Prize.

Marie Lang

Marie Lang was an Austrian feminist, theosophist and publisher. Born in 1858 in Vienna, Lang was raised in a liberal, upper-middle-class home. After divorcing her first husband in 1884, she married Edmund Lang and the two hosted an influential salon for politicians and intellectuals. Joining the women's movement toward the end of the 1880s, she quickly became an influential women's rights activist. In 1893, along with Auguste Fickert and Rosa Mayreder, she founded the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein. In spite of provisions in Section 30 of the law governing associations, which prohibited women's political involvement, the three friends used their networks of influential politicians and intellectuals to press for legal changes in laws governing women and children's civil rights and in favor of women's suffrage. In 1898, she co-founded the women's journal Dokumente der Frauen, serving as its editor-in-chief until 1902.

Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof is an Austrian mathematician known for her work on the behavior of the Schrödinger equation, and particularly on its asymptotic analysis, nodal lines, and behavior near its singularities.

Louise Übermasser, real name Aloisia Elisabeth Übermaßer, from 1882 Streitmann, from 1889 Pauli, from 1895 Schacherl, from 1902 Charlé, from 1912 Kary was an Austrian child actor, stage actress, theater director, singer and singing teacher.

Josef Ehmer is an Austrian historian.

Gertrud Herzog-Hauser was an Austrian classical philologist. She was specialised in ancient mythology and religion as well as Latin literature and published Latin school textbooks. She campaigned for equal rights for women in education.

Ilse Erika Korotin is an Austrian philosopher and sociologist. She researched and published on the history of ideas of Nazism. At the Institute for Science and Art in Vienna, she heads the Documentation Centre for Women's Studies. Her work focuses on feminist biographical research and history of science.

Maria Mesner is an Austrian contemporary historian who heads the gender studies program at the University of Vienna. She is co-editor of the journal Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften and directs the Bruno Kreisky Archives.

References

  1. Gabriele Schneider, "Richterinnen in Österreich", juridikum (in German), Verlag Österreich (4/2013), p. 502
  2. Ilse Korotin, Nastasja Stupnicki, ed. (2018), Biografien bedeutender österreichischer Wissenschafterinnen (in German), Böhlau Verlag, p. 315, ISBN   9783205202387
  3. Ilse Korotin (Hrsg.): biografıA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen. Band 2: I–O. Böhlau, Wien/Köln/Weimar 2016, ISBN   978-3-205-79590-2, S. 1156.