List of German supercentenarians

German supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Germany who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age., the Gerontology Research Group had validated the longevity claims of 59 German supercentenarians, including 49 residents and 10 emigrants. There are currently at least 3 Germans known to be alive over age 110. The oldest German is Adele Rodenstein, born 3 September 1908, aged living in North Rhine-Westphalia. Augusta Holtz, an emigrant to the United States, was the oldest German citizen whose age was validated; she lived 115 years and 79 days, from 1871 to 1986.

100 oldest known Germans

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of birth	Place of death or residence
1	Augusta Holtz	F	3 August 1871	21 October 1986		Posen	United States
2	Charlotte Benkner	F	16 November 1889	14 May 2004	114 years, 180 days	Saxony	United States
3	Gustav Gerneth	M	15 October 1905	22 October 2019	114 years, 7 days	Pomerania	Saxony-Anhalt
4	Luzia Mohrs	F	23 March 1904	16 October 2017	113 years, 207 days	Rhineland	Brazil
5	Louise Schaaf	F	16 October 1906	25 April 2020	113 years, 192 days	Baden	United States
6	Adelheid Kirschbaum	F	29 September 1883	21 December 1996	113 years, 83 days	Rhineland	United States
7	Mathilde Mange	F	10 August 1906	28 October 2019	113 years, 79 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
8	Maria Laqua	F	12 February 1889	9 February 2002	112 years, 362 days	Rhineland	Rhineland-Palatinate
9	Rosa Rein	F	24 March 1897	14 February 2010	112 years, 327 days	Silesia	Switzerland
10	Lydia Smuda	F	6 November 1906	6 June 2019		Rhineland	Hamburg
11	Frieda Szwillus	F	30 March 1902	21 September 2014	112 years, 175 days	Anhalt	Saxony
12	Marguerite Petit	F	5 July 1883	21 December 1995	112 years, 171 days	Lorraine	France
13	Berta Rosenberg	F	5 September 1896	28 January 2009	112 years, 145 days	Hesse-Nassau	United States
14	Gertrud Henze	F	8 December 1901	22 April 2014	112 years, 135 days	Pomerania	Lower Saxony
15	Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff	F	7 December 1905	9 April 2018	112 years, 123 days	Reuss-Gera	Baden-Württemberg
16	Therese Fenners	F	8 March 1906	23 June 2018	112 years, 107 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
17	Elisabeth Tränkner	F	11 August 1906	7 November 2018		Hesse-Nassau	Baden-Württemberg
18	Meta Berndt	F	9 November 1889	28 December 2001	112 years, 49 days	Pomerania	North Rhine-Westphalia
19	Johanna Klink	F	17 January 1903	20 February 2015	112 years, 34 days	Silesia	Saxony
20	Irmgard von Stephani	F	20 September 1895	5 October 2007	112 years, 15 days	Hesse-Nassau	Berlin
21	Katherine Bodenbender	F	19 April 1905	16 April 2017	111 years, 362 days	Hesse-Nassau	United States
22	Katharina Hagemeyer	F	4 August 1908	12 July 2020	111 years, 343 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
23	Adele Rodenstein	F	3 September 1908	Living		Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
24	Lina Zimmer	F	20 November 1892	28 August 2004	111 years, 282 days	Württemberg	Baden-Württemberg
25	Hermann Dörnemann	M	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
26	Helen Johnson	F	20 July 1896	17 April 2008	111 years, 272 days	Brandenburg	United States
27	Charlotte Klamroth	F	18 August 1903	16 May 2015	111 years, 271 days	Prussian Saxony	Rhineland-Palatinate
28	Josefine Ollmann	F	11 November 1908	Living		Bavaria	Schleswig-Holstein
29	Magdalene Regener	F	5 March 1891	19 November 2002	111 years, 259 days	Hesse-Nassau	Lower Saxony
30	Pauline Raißle	F	16 December 1905	29 August 2017	111 years, 256 days	Württemberg	Baden-Württemberg
31	Catherine Trompeter	F	26 March 1895	18 November 2006	111 years, 237 days	Alsace	France
32	Anna Küpper	F	29 December 1908	Living		Rhineland	Rhineland-Palatinate
33	Elisabeth Heck	F	11 July 1893	3 February 2005	111 years, 207 days	Baden	Hesse
34	Paula Baumgärtner	F	16 August 1881	24 February 1993	111 years, 192 days	Westphalia	Baden-Württemberg
35	Adele Ziegenhagel	F	12 July 1906	10 January 2018	111 years, 182 days		Rhineland-Palatinate
36	Margarete Ottmann	F	23 February 1903	17 August 2014	111 years, 175 days	Silesia	Bavaria
36	Ilse Beck	F	5 October 1906	29 March 2018	111 years, 175 days	Saxony	Thuringia
38	[\|Elisabeth Schneider]	F	19 August 1901	9 February 2013	111 years, 174 days	Westphalia	Lower Saxony
39	Frieda Borchert	F	5 January 1897	22 June 2008	111 years, 169 days	Pomerania	Berlin
40	Anna Mehlberg	F	2 December 1906	16 May 2018	111 years, 165 days	Brandenburg	Berlin
41	Rosa Rose	F	4 December 1903	25 April 2015	111 years, 142 days	Hanover	Lower Saxony
42	Karolina Krüger	F	17 February 1885	3 July 1996	111 years, 137 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
43	Katharina Braun	F	23 September 1867	5 February 1979	111 years, 135 days	Bavaria	Rhineland-Palatinate
44	Anna Stephan	F	25 March 1892	3 August 2003	111 years, 131 days	Bohemia	Bavaria
45	Anne Matthiesen	F	26 November 1884	19 March 1996		Schleswig-Holstein	Denmark
46	Elsa Tauser	F	10 July 1896	6 October 2007	111 years, 88 days	Hamburg	Schleswig-Holstein
47	Bertha Lindemann	F	11 March 1891	29 May 2002	111 years, 79 days	Brunswick	Lower Saxony
48	Johanna Frank	F	15 September 1875	24 November 1986	111 years, 70 days	Hamburg	United States
49	Käthe 'Katie' Logemann	F	15 December 1907	19 February 2019		Oldenburg	United States
50	Feuke Glato	F	26 December 1908	31 December 2019		Hanover	Lower Saxony
51	Else Aßmann	F	18 February 1902	15 February 2013	110 years, 363 days	Brandenburg	Berlin
52	Agnes Meier	F	30 May 1907	19 May 2018			North Rhine-Westphalia
53	Carl Berner	M	27 January 1902	7 January 2013	110 years, 346 days	Württemberg	United States
54	Aloysia Tilscher	F	9 December 1893	8 November 2004	110 years, 335 days	Moravia	Bavaria
55	Hildegard Henke	F	4 November 1905	27 September 2016		Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
56	Frieda Schmidt	F	15 December 1899	6 November 2010	110 years, 326 days	Brandenburg	Brandenburg
57	Berta Zeisler	F	2 February 1900	1 December 2010	110 years, 302 days	Lorraine	Rhineland-Palatinate
58	Gisela Metreweli	F	10 October 1893	31 July 2004	110 years, 295 days	Bavaria	Bavaria
59	Marie Stutz	F	22 October 1896	11 August 2007	110 years, 293 days	Hesse	Bavaria
60	Gerhart Schneider	M	13 March 1908	18 December 2018	110 years, 280 days	Silesia	North Rhine-Westphalia
61	Erna Henningsen	F	24 May 1889	27 February 2000	110 years, 279 days	Prussian Saxony	Berlin
62	Frieda Müller	F	18 October 1894	21 July 2005	110 years, 276 days	Brandenburg	Brandenburg
63	Pauline Spyra	F	24 April 1886	11 January 1997	110 years, 262 days	Silesia	Bavaria
64	Felicitas Rau	F	11 December 1907	8 August 2018	110 years, 240 days	Hamburg	North Rhine-Westphalia
65	Helga Doerk	F	8 February 1908	2 October 2018	110 years, 237 days	Carinthia, Austria	North Rhine-Westphalia
66	Frieda Tessmer	F	5 August 1897	28 March 2008	110 years, 236 days	Brandenburg	Berlin
67	Clothilde Rey	F	20 November 1892	9 July 2003	110 years, 231 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
68	Erna Scharfenberg	F	26 June 1894	26 January 2005	110 years, 214 days	Hamburg	Schleswig-Holstein
69	Mathilde Stoellger	F	21 April 1893	16 November 2003	110 years, 209 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
70	Karolina Gröber	F	27 April 1901	21 November 2011	110 years, 208 days	Bavaria	Bavaria
71	Friedrich Wedeking	M	10 October 1862	5 May 1973	110 years, 207 days	Lippe	North Rhine-Westphalia
72	Maria Corba	F	15 August 1878	8 March 1989	110 years, 205 days	Banat	North Rhine-Westphalia
73	Charlotte Bauch	F	12 October 1900	2 May 2011	110 years, 202 days	Saxony	Bavaria
74	Arno Wagner	M	4 June 1894	22 December 2004	110 years, 201 days	Saxony	Saxony
75	Caroline Dott	F	5 February 1900	8 August 2010	110 years, 184 days	Alsace	France
76	Marie Freund	F	25 September 1885	13 March 1996	110 years, 170 days	East Prussia	Brandenburg
77	Franziska Umrath	F	5 September 1885	18 February 1996	110 years, 166 days	West Prussia	Hamburg
78	Maria Volmer	F	8 June 1890	6 November 2000	110 years, 151 days	Westphalia	North Rhine-Westphalia
78	Johanne Rasmus	F	25 October 1896	25 March 2007	110 years, 151 days	Hanover	Lower Saxony
80	Helene Heidbreder	F	19 May 1897	8 October 2007	110 years, 142 days	Westphalia	Lower Saxony
80	Maria Jantke	F	18 October 1902	9 March 2013	110 years, 142 days	Westphalia	North Rhine-Westphalia
82	Emma Joisten	F	21 June 1898	8 November 2008	110 years, 140 days	Hesse-Nassau	North Rhine-Westphalia
83	Johanne Wilks	F	8 February 1893	23 June 2003	110 years, 135 days	Oldenburg	Lower Saxony
84	Else Hessberg	F	5 December 1892	12 April 2003	110 years, 128 days	Hesse-Nassau	United States
85	Ella Ille Rentel	F	19 May 1852	19 September 1962	110 years, 123 days	Russia	North Rhine-Westphalia
85	Lina von Veh	F	17 February 1898	19 June 2008	110 years, 123 days	Russia	Bavaria
87	Theresia Guglberger	F	26 August 1908	25 December 2018	110 years, 121 days
88	Christine Steinhauer	F	12 August 1908	1 December 2018		Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
89	Ruth Weyl	F	6 November 1908	23 February 2019	110 years, 109 days	Silesia	United States
90	John Mauch	M	24 December 1888	7 March 1999	110 years, 73 days	Württemberg	United States
91	Martin Eichel	M	13 July 1907	18 September 2017	110 years, 67 days		Hesse
92	Maria Schmitz	F	27 August 1886	22 October 1996	110 years, 56 days	Rhineland	North Rhine-Westphalia
93	Wilhelm Schorner	M	3 February 1889	29 March 1999	110 years, 54 days	Bavaria	Bavaria
94	Giovanna Meyer-Zettel	F	6 December 1896	12 January 2007	110 years, 37 days	Alsace	Italy
95	Wilhelmine Gnueg	F	12 March 1894	17 April 2004	110 years, 36 days	Hesse-Nassau	United States
96	Else Giesecke	F	23 February 1908	27 March 2018	110 years, 33 days		Lower Saxony
97	Franziska Maier	F	23 April 1898	20 May 2008	110 years, 27 days	Bohemia	Saxony-Anhalt
98	Mathilde Bonzo-Wrede	F	29 May 1890	8 June 2000	110 years, 10 days	Westphalia	Switzerland
99	Irene Mergelsberg	F	4 March 1893	6 March 2003	110 years, 2 days	Hesse	Hesse
100		F	2 February 1902	2 February 2012		Berlin	United States

Incomplete cases

Biographies

Friedrich Wedeking

Karl Friedrich Wedeking 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. Wedeking was the first supercentenarian recognized as the world's oldest living man by Guinness World Records.

Maria Laqua

Maria Laqua 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. 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 12 October 2018.

Hermann Dörnemann

Hermann Dörnemann 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 a 113-year-old American, Fred H. Hale Sr., in November 2004, Dörnemann was believed to have become the world's oldest living man, 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". He died of pneumonia in Düsseldorf, aged 111 years, 279 days.

Elisabeth Schneider

Elisabeth Schneider 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.

Gertrud Henze

Gertrud Henze 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.

Frieda Szwillus

Frieda Szwillus 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, 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.

Gustav Gerneth

Gustav Gerneth was born in Stettin, German Empire. He worked in a shipping company and at a gas plant. During World War II, he was a mechanic in the German air force. 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. 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. 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." Gerneth died on 22 October 2019 of natural causes, aged 114 years and 7 days, believed to be the world's oldest man, although Guinness World Records did not certify his case.

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