Margarete Haimberger-Tanzer

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]

References

1. Gabriele Schneider, "Richterinnen in Österreich", juridikum (in German), no. 4/2013, Verlag Österreich, 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.