Her great-grandfather was the classical philologist and high school director, Stefan Wolf; a grandfather was a lawyer.
The family lived in Czernowitz in Bukovina, which until the end of World War I belonged to the Austrian monarchy as its own crown land, then fell to the Kingdom of Romania and is currently partly in Ukraine (including Chernivtsi).
When the Russians approached towards the end of World War II, they fled to Upper Austria.
During this time, Nargang had already started working as an apprentice lawyer in Linz and passed the bar exam.
[1] As a contemporary historian, Nargang researched the history of the Bukovina Germans and the situation of the refugees in Upper Austria after the Second World War.