List of German supercentenarians
German supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Germany who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 59 German supercentenarians, being 49 residents and 10 emigrants.[1] There are currently at least 6 Germans known to be alive over age 110. The oldest of them is Josefine Ollmann, born 11 November 1908, aged 112 years, 89 days and living in Schleswig-Holstein. Augusta Holtz, an emigrant to the United States, remains the oldest German citizen whose age has been validated: she lived 115 years and 79 days, from 1871 to 1986.[2][3]
100 oldest known Germans (all 110+)
Deceased Living
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date (if deceased) | Age | Place of birth | Place of death or residence |
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1 | Augusta Holtz[2] | F | 3 August 1871 | 21 October 1986 | 115 years, 79 days | Posen[lower-alpha 1] | United States |
2 | Charlotte Benkner[4] | F | 16 November 1889 | 14 May 2004 | 114 years, 180 days | Saxony | United States |
3 | Gustav Gerneth[5] | M | 15 October 1905 | 22 October 2019[6] | 114 years, 7 days | Pomerania[lower-alpha 2] | Saxony-Anhalt |
4 | Luzia Mohrs[7] | F | 23 March 1904 | 16 October 2017 | 113 years, 207 days | Rhineland | Brazil |
5 | Louise Schaaf[7] | F | 16 October 1906 | 25 April 2020 | 113 years, 192 days | Baden | United States |
6 | Adelheid Kirschbaum[4] | F | 29 September 1883 | 21 December 1996 | 113 years, 83 days | Rhineland | United States |
7 | Mathilde Mange[8][9][10] | F | 10 August 1906 | 28 October 2019 | 113 years, 79 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
8 | Maria Laqua[4] | F | 12 February 1889 | 9 February 2002 | 112 years, 362 days | Rhineland | Rhineland-Palatinate |
9 | Rosa Rein[11] | F | 24 March 1897 | 14 February 2010 | 112 years, 327 days | Silesia[lower-alpha 3] | Switzerland |
10 | Lydia Smuda[12] | F | 6 November 1906 | 6 June 2019[13] | 112 years, 212 days | Rhineland | Hamburg |
11 | Frieda Szwillus[7] | F | 30 March 1902 | 21 September 2014 | 112 years, 175 days | Anhalt | Saxony |
12 | Marguerite Petit[14] | F | 5 July 1883 | 21 December 1995 | 112 years, 171 days | Lorraine[lower-alpha 4] | France |
13 | Berta Rosenberg[15] | F | 5 September 1896 | 28 January 2009 | 112 years, 145 days | Hesse-Nassau | United States |
14 | Gertrud Henze[7] | F | 8 December 1901 | 22 April 2014 | 112 years, 135 days | Pomerania | Lower Saxony |
15 | Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff[16] | F | 7 December 1905 | 9 April 2018 | 112 years, 123 days | Reuss-Gera | Baden-Württemberg |
16 | Therese Fenners[17] | F | 8 March 1906 | 23 June 2018 | 112 years, 107 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
17 | Josefine Ollmann[18][19] | F | 11 November 1908 | Living | 112 years, 89 days | Bavaria | Schleswig-Holstein |
18 | Elisabeth Tränkner[20] | F | 11 August 1906 | 7 November 2018[21] | 112 years, 88 days | Hesse-Nassau | Baden-Württemberg |
19 | Meta Berndt[4] | F | 9 November 1889 | 28 December 2001 | 112 years, 49 days | Pomerania[lower-alpha 5] | North Rhine-Westphalia |
20 | Johanna Klink[7] | F | 17 January 1903 | 20 February 2015 | 112 years, 34 days | Silesia[lower-alpha 6] | Saxony |
21 | Irmgard von Stephani[22] | F | 20 September 1895 | 5 October 2007 | 112 years, 15 days | Hesse-Nassau | Berlin |
22 | Katherine Bodenbender[7] | F | 19 April 1905 | 16 April 2017 | 111 years, 362 days | Hesse-Nassau | United States |
23 | Katharina Hagemeyer[23] | F | 4 August 1908 | 12 July 2020[24] | 111 years, 343 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
24 | Adele Rodenstein[25] | F | 3 September 1908 | 18 July 2020 | 111 years, 319 days | Rhineland[lower-alpha 7] | North Rhine-Westphalia |
25 | Anna Küpper[26] | F | 29 December 1908 | 18 October 2020 | 111 years, 294 days | Rhineland | Rhineland-Palatinate |
26 | Lina Zimmer[4] | F | 20 November 1892 | 28 August 2004 | 111 years, 282 days | Württemberg | Baden-Württemberg |
27 | Hermann Dörnemann[4] | M | 27 May 1893 | 2 March 2005 | 111 years, 279 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
28 | Helen Johnson[27] | F | 20 July 1896 | 17 April 2008 | 111 years, 272 days | Brandenburg | United States |
29 | Charlotte Klamroth[7] | F | 18 August 1903 | 16 May 2015 | 111 years, 271 days | Prussian Saxony | Rhineland-Palatinate |
30 | Magdalene Regener[4] | F | 5 March 1891 | 19 November 2002 | 111 years, 259 days | Hesse-Nassau | Lower Saxony |
31 | Pauline Raißle[28][29] | F | 16 December 1905 | 29 August 2017 | 111 years, 256 days | Württemberg | Baden-Württemberg |
32 | Catherine Trompeter[4] | F | 26 March 1895 | 18 November 2006 | 111 years, 237 days | Alsace[lower-alpha 8] | France |
33 | Elisabeth Heck[4] | F | 11 July 1893 | 3 February 2005 | 111 years, 207 days | Baden | Hesse |
34 | Hedwig Wickert[30][31] | F | 17 July 1909 | Living | 111 years, 206 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
35 | Paula Baumgärtner[32] | F | 16 August 1881 | 24 February 1993 | 111 years, 192 days | Westphalia | Baden-Württemberg |
36 | Adele Ziegenhagel[33] | F | 12 July 1906 | 10 January 2018 | 111 years, 182 days | (unknown) | Rhineland-Palatinate |
37 | Margarete Ottmann[7] | F | 23 February 1903 | 17 August 2014 | 111 years, 175 days | Silesia[lower-alpha 9] | Bavaria |
Ilse Beck[34] | F | 5 October 1906 | 29 March 2018 | Saxony | Thuringia | ||
39 | Elisabeth Schneider[7] | F | 19 August 1901 | 9 February 2013 | 111 years, 174 days | Westphalia | Lower Saxony |
40 | Frieda Borchert[7] | F | 5 January 1897 | 22 June 2008 | 111 years, 169 days | Pomerania[lower-alpha 10] | Berlin |
41 | Anna Mehlberg[35] | F | 2 December 1906 | 16 May 2018 | 111 years, 165 days | Brandenburg | Berlin |
42 | Anna Cernohorsky[36] | F | 13 September 1909 | Living | 111 years, 148 days | Bohemia[lower-alpha 11] | Saxony |
43 | Rosa Rose[7] | F | 4 December 1903 | 25 April 2015 | 111 years, 142 days | Hanover | Lower Saxony |
44 | Karolina Krüger[7] | F | 17 February 1885 | 3 July 1996 | 111 years, 137 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
45 | Katharina Braun[37] | F | 23 September 1867 | 5 February 1979 | 111 years, 135 days | Bavaria (Palatinate) | Rhineland-Palatinate |
46 | Anna Stephan[4] | F | 25 March 1892 | 3 August 2003 | 111 years, 131 days | Bohemia[lower-alpha 12] | Bavaria |
47 | Anne Matthiesen (née Jensen)[38] | F | 26 November 1884 | 19 March 1996 | 111 years, 114 days | Schleswig-Holstein[lower-alpha 13] | Denmark |
48 | Elsa Tauser[22] | F | 10 July 1896 | 6 October 2007 | 111 years, 88 days | Hamburg | Schleswig-Holstein |
49 | Bertha Lindemann[37] | F | 11 March 1891 | 29 May 2002 | 111 years, 79 days | Brunswick | Lower Saxony |
50 | Johanna Frank[4] | F | 15 September 1875 | 24 November 1986 | 111 years, 70 days | Hamburg | United States |
51 | Käthe 'Katie' Logemann[40][41] | F | 15 December 1907 | 19 February 2019 | 111 years, 66 days | Oldenburg | United States |
52 | Feuke Glato[42] | F | 26 December 1908 | 31 December 2019[43] | 111 years, 5 days | Hanover | Lower Saxony |
53 | Else Aßmann[7] | F | 18 February 1902 | 15 February 2013 | 110 years, 363 days | Brandenburg | Berlin |
54 | Agnes Meier[44] | F | 30 May 1907 | 19 May 2018 | 110 years, 354 days | (unknown) | North Rhine-Westphalia |
55 | Carl Berner[7] | M | 27 January 1902 | 7 January 2013 | 110 years, 346 days | Württemberg | United States |
56 | Aloysia Tilscher[4] | F | 9 December 1893 | 8 November 2004 | 110 years, 335 days | Moravia[lower-alpha 14] | Bavaria |
57 | Hildegard Henke[45][46] | F | 4 November 1905 | 27 September 2016 | 110 years, 328 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
58 | Frieda Schmidt[11] | F | 15 December 1899 | 6 November 2010 | 110 years, 326 days | Brandenburg | Brandenburg |
59 | Berta Zeisler[11] | F | 2 February 1900 | 1 December 2010 | 110 years, 302 days | Lorraine[lower-alpha 4] | Rhineland-Palatinate |
60 | Gisela Metreweli[47] | F | 10 October 1893 | 31 July 2004 | 110 years, 295 days | Bavaria | Bavaria |
61 | Marie Stutz[22] | F | 22 October 1896 | 11 August 2007 | 110 years, 293 days | Hesse | Bavaria |
62 | Ilse Schade[48] | F | 26 April 1910 | Living | 110 years, 288 days | Berlin | Baden-Württemberg |
63 | Gerhart Schneider[49] | M | 13 March 1908 | 18 December 2018 | 110 years, 280 days | Silesia[lower-alpha 15] | North Rhine-Westphalia |
64 | Erna Henningsen[7] | F | 24 May 1889 | 27 February 2000 | 110 years, 279 days | Prussian Saxony | Berlin |
65 | Frieda Müller[4] | F | 18 October 1894 | 21 July 2005 | 110 years, 276 days | Brandenburg | Brandenburg |
66 | Pauline Spyra[37] | F | 24 April 1886 | 11 January 1997 | 110 years, 262 days | Silesia[lower-alpha 16] | Bavaria |
67 | Felicitas Rau[50] | F | 11 December 1907 | 8 August 2018 | 110 years, 240 days | Hamburg | North Rhine-Westphalia |
68 | Helga Doerk[51] | F | 8 February 1908 | 2 October 2018 | 110 years, 237 days | Carinthia, Austria | North Rhine-Westphalia |
69 | Frieda Tessmer[27] | F | 5 August 1897 | 28 March 2008 | 110 years, 236 days | Brandenburg | Berlin |
Johanna Rehfeldt[52] | F | 17 June 1910 | Living | 110 years, 236 days | Saxony | Bremen | |
71 | Clothilde Rey[4] | F | 20 November 1892 | 9 July 2003 | 110 years, 231 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
72 | Erna Scharfenberg[4] | F | 26 June 1894 | 26 January 2005 | 110 years, 214 days | Hamburg | Schleswig-Holstein |
73 | Wilhelmine Beumer[53] | F | 10 April 1910 | 9 November 2020[54] | 110 years, 213 days | Hanover | North Rhine-Westphalia |
74 | Mathilde Stoellger[55] | F | 21 April 1893 | 16 November 2003 | 110 years, 209 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
75 | Karolina Gröber[56] | F | 27 April 1901 | 21 November 2011 | 110 years, 208 days | Bavaria | Bavaria |
76 | Friedrich Wedeking[37] | M | 10 October 1862 | 5 May 1973 | 110 years, 207 days | Lippe | North Rhine-Westphalia |
77 | Maria Corba[4] | F | 15 August 1878 | 8 March 1989 | 110 years, 205 days | Banat[lower-alpha 17] | North Rhine-Westphalia |
78 | Charlotte Bauch[56] | F | 12 October 1900 | 2 May 2011 | 110 years, 202 days | Saxony | Bavaria |
79 | Arno Wagner[4] | M | 4 June 1894 | 22 December 2004 | 110 years, 201 days | Saxony | Saxony |
80 | Caroline Dott[11] | F | 5 February 1900 | 8 August 2010 | 110 years, 184 days | Alsace[lower-alpha 8] | France |
81 | Marie Freund[57] | F | 25 September 1885 | 13 March 1996[58] | 110 years, 170 days | East Prussia[lower-alpha 18] | Brandenburg |
82 | Franziska Umrath[59] | F | 5 September 1885 | 18 February 1996 | 110 years, 166 days | West Prussia[lower-alpha 19] | Hamburg |
83 | Maria Volmer[7] | F | 8 June 1890 | 6 November 2000 | 110 years, 151 days | Westphalia | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Johanne Rasmus[22] | F | 25 October 1896 | 25 March 2007 | Hanover | Lower Saxony | ||
85 | Helene Heidbreder[22] | F | 19 May 1897 | 8 October 2007 | 110 years, 142 days | Westphalia | Lower Saxony |
Maria Jantke[7] | F | 18 October 1902 | 9 March 2013 | Westphalia | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
87 | Emma Joisten[27] | F | 21 June 1898 | 8 November 2008 | 110 years, 140 days | Hesse-Nassau | North Rhine-Westphalia |
88 | Johanne Wilks[37] | F | 8 February 1893 | 23 June 2003 | 110 years, 135 days | Oldenburg | Lower Saxony |
89 | Else Hessberg[55] | F | 5 December 1892 | 12 April 2003 | 110 years, 128 days | Hesse-Nassau | United States |
90 | Ella Ille Rentel[60] | F | 19 May 1852 | 19 September 1962 | 110 years, 123 days | Russia[lower-alpha 20] | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Lina von Veh[27] | F | 17 February 1898 | 19 June 2008 | Russia[lower-alpha 21] | Bavaria | ||
92 | Theresia Guglberger[61] | F | 26 August 1908 | 25 December 2018 | 110 years, 121 days | (unknown) | Bavaria |
93 | Christine Steinhauer[62] | F | 12 August 1908 | 1 December 2018[63] | 110 years, 111 days | Rhineland[62] | North Rhine-Westphalia[62] |
94 | Ruth Weyl | F | 6 November 1908 | 23 February 2019[64] | 110 years, 109 days | Silesia[lower-alpha 22] | United States |
95 | John Mauch[4] | M | 24 December 1888 | 7 March 1999 | 110 years, 73 days | Württemberg | United States |
96 | Margarethe Petermeier[65] | F | 24 September 1910 | 2 December 2020 | 110 years, 69 days | Silesia[lower-alpha 23] | North Rhine-Westphalia |
97 | Martin Eichel[66] | M | 13 July 1907 | 18 September 2017 | 110 years, 67 days | (unknown) | Hesse |
98 | Maria Schmitz[4] | F | 27 August 1886 | 22 October 1996 | 110 years, 56 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
99 | Wilhelm Schorner[37] | M | 3 February 1889 | 29 March 1999 | 110 years, 54 days | Bavaria | Bavaria |
100 | Giovanna Meyer-Zettel[4] | F | 6 December 1896 | 12 January 2007 | 110 years, 37 days | Alsace[lower-alpha 8] | Italy |
Biographies
Friedrich Wedeking
Karl Friedrich Wedeking (10 October 1862 – 5 May 1973) was born in Blomberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and died in Dortmund, aged 110 years, 207 days. He was one of the founding members of the city's gliders club in 1931.[67] Wedeking was the first supercentenarian recognized as the world's oldest living man by Guinness World Records.[68]
Maria Laqua
Maria Laqua (12 February 1889 – 9 February 2002) was born in Rheydt-Odenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, as one of 13 children. She worked as a housemaid, got married, and gave birth to two sons in the 1920s, who both died in the Second World War. Her husband Charles died in 1958. She lived for 35 years in a retirement home in Bad Hönningen, Rhineland-Palatinate and died in her sleep. She was only survived by a great-niece who attended her regularly. Laqua was in need of care, bedridden and inaccessible during her last years, although she occasionally had a flash and spoke.[69] She was the oldest person ever in Germany when she died aged 112 years, 362 days. Her record age was surpassed by Gustav Gerneth on 13 October 2018, although his age is officially still unvalidated.
Hermann Dörnemann
Hermann Dörnemann (27 May 1893 – 2 March 2005) was, at the time of his death, the oldest living person in Germany and the oldest living man in Europe for about one year. After the death of 113-year-old American, Fred H. Hale Sr., in November 2004, Dörnemann was believed to have become the world's oldest living man,[70] but Emiliano Mercado del Toro from Puerto Rico was later confirmed to be almost two years older. Dörnemann credited his longevity to "drinking a beer a day".[71][72] He died of pneumonia in Düsseldorf, aged 111 years, 279 days.
Elisabeth Schneider
Elisabeth Schneider (19 August 1901 – 9 February 2013) was the oldest living person in Germany from November 2011 to her death in February 2013, aged 111 years and 174 days. She was born in Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, and had two sisters. She married in 1923 and gave birth to a daughter two years later. Schneider lived on her own until the age of 97. At her 111th birthday she was asked for the secret of her longevity and replied laughing that others just would have given up gasping for breath. She died in a retirement home in Varel, Lower Saxony. She was survived by her daughter, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.[73][74]
Gertrud Henze
Gertrud Henze (8 December 1901 – 22 April 2014) was the oldest living person in Germany from February 2013 until her death in April 2014. She was born in Rügen, worked as a librarian, and never married nor had children. Since 1993, she lived in a retirement home in Göttingen, where she was appreciated for her open and life-affirming attitude. She was still in good health, and listed reasons for her longevity including: reading a lot, having lively contact with other people, sometimes enjoying a cigarette and a glass of wine, and never getting married. She celebrated her 112th birthday only with some friends and relatives, because the public interest in her prior birthday had been too exhausting. She enjoyed reading, with the help of a magnifying glass. She was still able to walk with a rollator to meet acquaintances and friends for a chat. Henze died at the age of 112 years and 135 days. She donated her body to medical science for genetic research.[75][76][77]
Frieda Szwillus
Frieda Szwillus (née Hennig; 30 March 1902 – 21 September 2014[78]) was Germany's oldest living person from April 2014 until her death five months later, aged 112 years, 175 days. She was born Frieda Hennig in Dessau (now in Saxony-Anhalt), and had six siblings. Her family moved to Erla when she was 6. She was married twice, raised one biological child and three stepchildren, and outlived all of them. Until her later years, Szwillus lived at home in Raschau with her family, and she needed no medicine. She was in good physical condition, but suffered from dementia. She had only been physically active during her youth. Her family attributed her longevity to a lively family life. She often visited her siblings, but never went on holiday. She also enjoyed knitting and embroidering. She died at the age of 112 years and 175 days.[79][80][81]
Gustav Gerneth
Gustav Gerneth (15 October 1905 – 22 October 2019)[6] was born in Stettin, German Empire (now Szczecin, Poland).[82] He worked in a shipping company and at a gas plant. During the Second World War, he was a mechanic in the German air force (Luftwaffe). He married Charlotte Grubert in 1930 and the couple had three sons; she died in 1988. Gerneth lived in Havelberg in Saxony-Anhalt for over forty years, and continued to do so on his own, with family members caring for his household.[83][84] According to a statement by his granddaughter on his 113th birthday, he still had a lucid mind, watching football, solving crosswords, and doing mental arithmetic.[85] Asked for the reason for his long life, he said: "I have always been living and eating well. No diet. Always butter, never margarine. I have not touched any cigarette all my life and I drank alcohol only at celebrations."[86] Gerneth died on 22 October 2019 of natural causes, aged 114 years and 7 days, believed to have been the world's oldest man,[87] although Guinness World Records has not verified his case.[88][89]
Notes
- Holtz was born in Czarnikau, then in the German Empire, now Czarnków in Poland.
- Gerneth was born in Stettin, then in the German Empire, now Szczecin in Poland.
- Rein was born in Myslowitz, then in the German Empire, now Mysłowice in Poland.
- Petit and Zeisler were born in Lorraine, then part of the German Empire, now in France.
- Berndt was born in Kaffzig, then in the German Empire, now Kawcze in Poland.
- Klink was born in Siemianowitz, then in the German Empire, now Siemianowice in Poland.
- Rodenstein was born in Herbesthal, which was then part of the Prussian Rhine Province. Since 1920 it is part of the Eupen-Malmedy region in Belgium.
- Trompeter, Dott and Meyer-Zettel were born in Alsace, then part of the German Empire, now in France.
- Ottmann was born in Bauerwitz, then in the German Empire, now Baborów in Poland.
- Borchert was born in Gusscht, then in the German Empire, now in Poland.
- Cernohorsky was born in Molschen, Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now Malešov in the Czech Republic.
- Stephan and Maier were born in Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.
- Matthiesen was born in Hadersleben[39] (now Haderslev), in the Northern Schleswig region, then part of Prussia, which was reunited with Denmark in 1920. She died in the same region.
- Tilscher was born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.
- Schneider was born in Habelschwerdt, then in the German Empire, now Bystrzyca Kłodzka in Poland.
- Spyra was born in Wendzin, then in the German Empire, now Wędzina in Poland.
- Corba was born in Izgar, then in Austria-Hungary, now Vermeș in Romania.
- Freund was born in Königsberg, then in the German Empire, now Kaliningrad in Russia.
- Umrath was born in Danzig, then in the German Empire, now Gdańsk in Poland.
- Rentel was born in Geldauschinken, then in the Russian Empire, now in Lithuania.
- von Veh was born in the Russian Empire, now Russia.
- Weyl was born in Breslau, then in the German Empire, now Wrocław in Poland.
- Petermeier was born in Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge, then in the German Empire, now Kowary in Poland.
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