List of German supercentenarians

Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff (1905–2018) was one of the oldest Germans ever recorded. At age 112, she was part of an awareness campaign for the EU's 112 emergency number.

As of January 2015 ^[update] , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 59 German citizens who have become "supercentenarians", attaining or surpassing 110 years of age. 49 of these were German residents and 10 were emigrants. ^[1] There are currently at least three Germans known to be alive over age 110. The oldest of them is Ilse Meingast, born on 14 March 1912, aged 112 years, 266 days. Augusta Holtz, an emigrant to the United States, remains the oldest German citizen whose age has been verified: she lived 115 years, 79 days, from 1871 to 1986. ^{[2] [3]}

100 oldest Germans

  Deceased  Living

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Birthplace	Place of death or residence
01	Augusta Holtz [2]	F	3 August 1871	21 October 1986	115 years, 79 days	Posen [a]	United States
02	Charlotte Kretschmann [4]	F	3 December 1909	27 August 2024 [5]	114 years, 268 days	Silesia [b]	Baden-Württemberg
03	Charlotte Benkner [2]	F	16 November 1889	14 May 2004	114 years, 180 days	Saxony	United States
04	Gustav Gerneth [6]	M	15 October 1905	21 October 2019 [7]	114 years, 6 days	Pomerania [c]	Saxony-Anhalt
05	Josefine Ollmann [8]	F	11 November 1908	16 July 2022 [9]	113 years, 247 days	Bavaria	Schleswig-Holstein
06	Luzia Mohrs [10]	F	23 March 1904	16 October 2017	113 years, 207 days	Rhineland	Brazil
07	Louise Schaaf [10]	F	16 October 1906	25 April 2020	113 years, 192 days	Baden	United States
08	Erna Brosig [4]	F	15 January 1911	23 July 2024 [11]	113 years, 190 days	Silesia [d]	Lower Saxony
09	Maria Aulenbacher [12]	F	7 November 1909	8 February 2023 [13]	113 years, 93 days	Hesse-Nassau	United States
10	Adelheid Kirschbaum [2]	F	29 September 1883	21 December 1996	113 years, 83 days	Rhineland	United States
11	Mathilde Mange [14] [15] [16]	F	10 August 1906	28 October 2019	113 years, 79 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
12	Anna Cernohorsky [17] [18]	F	13 September 1909	18 September 2022 [19]	113 years, 5 days	Bohemia [e]	Saxony
13	Maria Laqua [2]	F	12 February 1889	9 February 2002	112 years, 362 days	Rhineland	Rhineland-Palatinate
14	Rosa Rein [2]	F	24 March 1897	14 February 2010	112 years, 327 days	Silesia [f]	Switzerland
15	Anna Bechler [10]	F	28 September 1907	29 July 2020	112 years, 305 days	Bavaria	United States
16	Rosalia Hasenkampf [20]	F	14 October 1889	10 July 2002	112 years, 269 days	Russia [g]	North Rhine-Westphalia
17	Ilse Meingast [21]	F	14 March 1912	Living	112 years, 266 days	Brandenburg	United States
18	Gertruda Gorecka [22]	F	12 November 1911	25 June 2024 [23]	112 years, 226 days	West Prussia [h]	Canada
19	Lydia Smuda [24]	F	6 November 1906	6 June 2019 [25]	112 years, 212 days	Rhineland	Hamburg
20	Frieda Szwillus [10]	F	30 March 1902	21 September 2014	112 years, 175 days	Anhalt	Saxony
21	Marguerite Petit [2]	F	5 July 1883	21 December 1995	112 years, 171 days	Lorraine [i]	France
22	Babette Endres [26]	F	1 August 1910	12 January 2023 [27]	112 years, 164 days	Bavaria	Baden-Württemberg
23	Berta Rosenberg [2]	F	5 September 1896	28 January 2009	112 years, 145 days	Hesse-Nassau	United States
24	Gertrud Henze [10]	F	8 December 1901	22 April 2014	112 years, 135 days	Pomerania	Lower Saxony
25	Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff [28]	F	7 December 1905	9 April 2018	112 years, 123 days	Reuss-Gera	Baden-Württemberg
26	Therese Fenners [29]	F	8 March 1906	23 June 2018	112 years, 107 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
27	Elisabeth Tränkner [30]	F	11 August 1906	7 November 2018 [31]	112 years, 88 days	Hesse-Nassau	Baden-Württemberg
28	Meta Berndt [2]	F	9 November 1889	28 December 2001	112 years, 49 days	Pomerania [j]	North Rhine-Westphalia
29	Johanna Klink [10]	F	17 January 1903	20 February 2015	112 years, 34 days	Silesia [k]	Saxony
30	Irmgard von Stephani [2]	F	20 September 1895	5 October 2007	112 years, 15 days	Hesse-Nassau	Berlin
31	Hildegard 'Hilda' Rau [32]	F	31 July 1912	29 July 2024 [33]	111 years, 364 days	Württemberg	Baden-Württemberg
32	Katherine Bodenbender [10]	F	19 April 1905	16 April 2017	111 years, 362 days	Hesse-Nassau	United States
33	Katharina Hagemeyer [34]	F	4 August 1908	12 July 2020 [35]	111 years, 343 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
34	Adele Rodenstein [36]	F	3 September 1908	18 July 2020	111 years, 319 days	Rhineland [l]	North Rhine-Westphalia
35	Anna Küpper [37]	F	29 December 1908	18 October 2020	111 years, 294 days	Rhineland	Rhineland-Palatinate
36	Lina Zimmer [2]	F	20 November 1892	28 August 2004	111 years, 282 days	Württemberg	Baden-Württemberg
37	Hermann Dörnemann [2]	M	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
38	Helen Johnson [2]	F	20 July 1896	17 April 2008	111 years, 272 days	Brandenburg	United States
39	Charlotte Klamroth [10]	F	18 August 1903	16 May 2015	111 years, 271 days	Prussian Saxony	Rhineland-Palatinate
40	Magdalene Regener [2]	F	5 March 1891	19 November 2002	111 years, 259 days	Hesse-Nassau	Lower Saxony
41	Pauline Raißle [38] [39]	F	16 December 1905	29 August 2017	111 years, 256 days	Württemberg	Baden-Württemberg
42	Catherine Trompeter [2]	F	26 March 1895	18 November 2006	111 years, 237 days	Alsace [m]	France
43	Elisabeth Heck [2]	F	11 July 1893	3 February 2005	111 years, 207 days	Baden	Hesse
44	Adele Lankenau [40]	F	27 March 1913	6 October 2024 [41]	111 years, 193 days	Hanover	Lower Saxony
45	Paula Baumgärtner [2]	F	16 August 1881	24 February 1993	111 years, 192 days	Westphalia	Baden-Württemberg
46	Adele Ziegenhagel [42]	F	12 July 1906	10 January 2018	111 years, 182 days	(unknown)	Rhineland-Palatinate
47	Margarete Ottmann [10]	F	23 February 1903	17 August 2014	111 years, 175 days	Silesia [n]	Bavaria
	Ilse Beck [43]	F	5 October 1906	29 March 2018		Saxony	Thuringia
49	Elisabeth Schneider [10]	F	19 August 1901	9 February 2013	111 years, 174 days	Westphalia	Lower Saxony
50	Frieda Borchert [10]	F	5 January 1897	22 June 2008	111 years, 169 days	Pomerania [o]	Berlin
51	Anna Mehlberg [44]	F	2 December 1906	16 May 2018	111 years, 165 days	Brandenburg	Berlin
52	Rosa Rose [10]	F	4 December 1903	25 April 2015	111 years, 142 days	Hanover	Lower Saxony
53	Karolina Krüger [10]	F	17 February 1885	3 July 1996	111 years, 137 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
54	Katharina Braun [2]	F	23 September 1867	5 February 1979	111 years, 135 days	Bavaria (Palatinate)	Rhineland-Palatinate
55	Anna Stephan [2]	F	25 March 1892	3 August 2003	111 years, 131 days	Bohemia [p]	Bavaria
56	Friedrich Reichenstein [45]	M	1 February 1906	9 June 2017	111 years, 128 days	Westphalia	Israel
57	Anna Braun [46]	F	5 July 1911	29 October 2022 [47]	111 years, 116 days	(unknown)	Brandenburg
58	Gertrud Teichgräber [48]	F	22 November 1908	16 March 2020	111 years, 115 days	Brandenburg	Lower Saxony
59	Anne Matthiesen (née Jensen) [2]	F	26 November 1884	19 March 1996	111 years, 114 days	Schleswig-Holstein [q]	Denmark
60	Gertrud Blohm [50]	F	7 September 1912	29 December 2023 [51]	111 years, 113 days	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
61	Maria Gabriella Lerchenthal [52]	F	8 June 1913	13 September 2024	111 years, 97 days	Bavaria	Italy
62	Ida Enthof [53] [54]	F	7 September 1913	Living	111 years, 89 days	East Prussia [r]	Lower Saxony
63	Elsa Tauser [2]	F	10 July 1896	6 October 2007	111 years, 88 days	Hamburg	Schleswig-Holstein
64	Bertha Lindemann [2]	F	11 March 1891	29 May 2002	111 years, 79 days	Brunswick	Lower Saxony
65	Johanna Frank [2]	F	15 September 1875	24 November 1986	111 years, 70 days	Hamburg	United States
66	Käthe 'Katie' Logemann [55] [56]	F	15 December 1907	19 February 2019	111 years, 66 days	Oldenburg	United States
67	Zhenya Broytman [57] [58]	F	21 August 1899	25 October 2010	111 years, 65 days	Ukraine [s]	North Rhine-Westphalia
68	Emilie Kreckmann [59]	F	28 October 1912	18 December 2023 [60]	111 years, 51 days	Bavaria	Saarland
69	Else Tostmann [61]	F	20 October 1913	Living	111 years, 46 days	Hanover	Lower Saxony
70	Elisabeth Schlink [62]	F	3 December 1910	24 December 2021 [63]	111 years, 21 days	West Prussia [t]	Schleswig-Holstein
71	Feuke Glato [64]	F	26 December 1908	31 December 2019 [65]	111 years, 5 days	Hanover	Lower Saxony
72	Else Aßmann [10]	F	18 February 1902	15 February 2013	110 years, 363 days	Brandenburg	Berlin
73	Dorothea Duisberg [66]	F	7 October 1912	2 October 2023 [67]	110 years, 360 days	Bremen	Chile
74	Johann Schornack [68]	M	29 February 1912	22 February 2023 [69]	110 years, 359 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
75	Anna 'Änne' Matschewsky [70]	F	3 October 1912	23 September 2023 [71]	110 years, 355 days	Rhineland	Baden-Württemberg
76	Agnes Meier [72]	F	30 May 1907	19 May 2018	110 years, 354 days	(unknown)	North Rhine-Westphalia
77	Carl Berner [10]	M	27 January 1902	7 January 2013	110 years, 346 days	Württemberg	United States
78	Aloysia Tilscher [2]	F	9 December 1893	8 November 2004	110 years, 335 days	Moravia [u]	Bavaria
79	Hildegard Henke [73] [74]	F	4 November 1905	27 September 2016	110 years, 328 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
80	Frieda Schmidt [2]	F	15 December 1899	6 November 2010	110 years, 326 days	Brandenburg	Brandenburg
81	Berta Zeisler [2]	F	2 February 1900	1 December 2010	110 years, 302 days	Lorraine [i]	Rhineland-Palatinate
82	Gisela Metreweli [2]	F	10 October 1893	31 July 2004	110 years, 295 days	Bavaria	Bavaria
83	Marie Stutz [2]	F	22 October 1896	11 August 2007	110 years, 293 days	Hesse	Bavaria
84	Gerhart Schneider [75]	M	13 March 1908	18 December 2018	110 years, 280 days	Silesia [v]	North Rhine-Westphalia
85	Erna Henningsen [10]	F	24 May 1889	27 February 2000	110 years, 279 days	Prussian Saxony	Berlin
86	Frieda Müller [2]	F	18 October 1894	21 July 2005	110 years, 276 days	Brandenburg	Brandenburg
87	Pauline Spyra [2]	F	24 April 1886	11 January 1997	110 years, 262 days	Silesia [w]	Bavaria
88	Felicitas Rau [76]	F	11 December 1907	8 August 2018	110 years, 240 days	Hamburg	North Rhine-Westphalia
89	Helga Doerk [77]	F	8 February 1908	2 October 2018	110 years, 237 days	Carinthia, Austria	North Rhine-Westphalia
90	Frieda Tessmer [2]	F	5 August 1897	28 March 2008	110 years, 236 days	Brandenburg	Berlin
91	Clothilde Rey [2]	F	20 November 1892	9 July 2003	110 years, 231 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
92	Erna Scharfenberg [2]	F	26 June 1894	26 January 2005	110 years, 214 days	Hamburg	Schleswig-Holstein
93	Wilhelmine Beumer [78]	F	10 April 1910	9 November 2020 [79]	110 years, 213 days	Hanover	North Rhine-Westphalia
94	Mathilde Stoellger [2]	F	21 April 1893	16 November 2003	110 years, 209 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
95	Karolina Gröber [2]	F	27 April 1901	21 November 2011	110 years, 208 days	Bavaria	Bavaria
96	Friedrich Wedeking [2]	M	10 October 1862	5 May 1973	110 years, 207 days	Lippe	North Rhine-Westphalia
97	Maria Corba [2]	F	15 August 1878	8 March 1989	110 years, 205 days	Banat [x]	North Rhine-Westphalia
98	Charlotte Bauch [2]	F	12 October 1900	2 May 2011	110 years, 202 days	Saxony	Bavaria
99	Arno Wagner [2]	M	4 June 1894	22 December 2004	110 years, 201 days	Saxony	Saxony
100	Hilda Wesser [80]	F	14 August 1911	26 February 2022	110 years, 196 days	Prussian Saxony	Saxony-Anhalt

Biographies

Friedrich Wedeking

Karl Friedrich Wedeking (10 October 1862 – 5 May 1973) was born in Blomberg, Prussia, German Confederation, and died in Dortmund, West Germany, aged 110 years, 207 days. He was one of the founding members of the city's gliders club in 1931. ^[81] Wedeking was the first supercentenarian recognized as the world's oldest living man by Guinness World Records . ^[82]

Maria Laqua

Maria Laqua (12 February 1889 – 9 February 2002) was born in Rheydt-Odenkirchen, Rhineland, today in 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. ^[83] She was the oldest person ever in Germany when she died aged 112 years, 362 days. Her record age was officially surpassed by Josefine Ollmann on 9 November 2021, who was validated by the GRG on 15 February 2023. ^[8]

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 Harold Hale in November 2004, Dörnemann was believed to have become the world's oldest living man, ^[84] 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". ^{[85] [86]} 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, today in 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. ^{[87] [88]}

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. ^{[89] [90] [91]}

Frieda Szwillus

Frieda Szwillus (née Hennig; 30 March 1902 – 21 September 2014 ^[92] ) 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. ^{[93] [94] [95]}

Gustav Gerneth

Gustav Gerneth (15 October 1905 – 21 October 2019) ^[7] was born in Stettin, German Empire (now Szczecin, Poland). ^[96] 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 ). ^[97] 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. ^{[6] [98]} 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. ^[99] 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." ^[100] Gerneth died on 21 October 2019 of natural causes, aged 114 years and 6 days, believed to have been the world's oldest man, ^[101] although Guinness World Records has not verified his case. ^{[102] [103]}

Josefine Ollmann

In November 2021, Josefine Ollmann (11 November 1908 – 16 July 2022) surpassed Maria Laqua's final age to become the oldest person ever in Germany and the first German to officially reach the age of 113. Ollmann, whose age was validated by the GRG on 13 February 2023, passed away on 16 July 2022 at the final age of 113 years and 247 days. Although Gustav Gerneth's claimed final age is older than Ollmann, his age is officially still unvalidated.

Notes

1. Holtz was born in Czarnikau, then in the German Empire, now Czarnków in Poland.
2. Kretschmann was born in Breslau, then in the German Empire, now Wrocław in Poland.
3. Gerneth was born in Stettin, then in the German Empire, now Szczecin in Poland.
4. Brosig was born in Breslau, then in the German Empire, now Wrocław in Poland.
5. Cernohorsky was born in Molschen, Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now Malešov in the Czech Republic.
6. Rein was born in Myslowitz, then in the German Empire, now Mysłowice in Poland.
7. Hasenkampf was born in Glarus in the Saratov Oblast, then in the Russian Empire.
8. Gorecka was born in Kamlau, then in the German Empire, now Kębłowo in Poland.
9. Petit and Zeisler were born in Lorraine, then part of the German Empire, now in France.
10. Berndt was born in Kaffzig, then in the German Empire, now Kawcze in Poland.
11. Klink was born in Siemianowitz, then in the German Empire, now Siemianowice in Poland.
12. 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.
13. Trompeter was born in Alsace, then part of the German Empire, now in France.
14. Ottmann was born in Bauerwitz, then in the German Empire, now Baborów in Poland.
15. Borchert was born in Gusscht, then in the German Empire, now in Poland.
16. Stephan was born in Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.
17. Matthiesen was born in Hadersleben ^[49] (now Haderslev), in the Northern Schleswig region, then part of Prussia, which was reunited with Denmark in 1920. She died in the same region.
18. Enthof was born in Königsgut, then in East Prussia, now Królikowo in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
19. Broytman was born in Kharkiv, then in the Russian Empire, now part of Ukraine.
20. Schlink was born near Schwetz, then in the German Empire, now Świecie in Poland.
21. Tilscher was born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.
22. Schneider was born in Habelschwerdt, then in the German Empire, now Bystrzyca Kłodzka in Poland.
23. Spyra was born in Wendzin, then in the German Empire, now Wędzina in Poland.
24. Corba was born in Izgar, then in Austria-Hungary, now Vermeș in Romania.

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