Ingrun Helgard Möckel (1941 – October 1977), later Ingrun Neckermann was a German model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned

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1960 and represented her country at

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but unplaced later she was crowned Miss Europe 1961.

Early life

Möckel was from Düsseldorf. At age 9, she immigrated to New Zealand with her mother. She attended

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in Auckland. She was a music student in Baden-Baden when she found fame in beauty pageants.

Career

Möckel was crowned Miss Rheinland and

in 1960, and Miss Europe in 1961, in Beirut. She was a runner-up at the Miss Universe pageant held in Miami, Florida, in 1960, and at the

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pageant that same year, held in London. She worked as a fashion model with the

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in New York.

Personal life

While in New York, Möckel met businessman Johannes Neckermann, son of Josef Neckermann, they married in 1966. They had three children. She died in a car accident in 1977, aged 35 years. Her grave is in the Frankfurt Main Cemetery. In 2001, her three children appeared with singer

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in a documentary, ''Die Akte Joel'' by filmmaker Beate Thalberg.

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A news photograph from the Neckermanns' 1966 wedding
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