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{{Short description|People from Germany who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years}}
This is a list of verified ] ]s (people from ] who have attained the age of at least 110 years). There have been 42 verified ]s from ].<ref name="GRG"> The Gerontology Research Group lists persons as living whose age has been validated and confirmed to be alive within the past year.</ref> The oldest person ever from Germany was ], who died in 2002 aged 112 years, 362 days (but ], aged 115 years, 79 days, died in the USA in 1986). As of {{date}}, there is 1 verified living supercentenarian, 1 pending, and 6 unverified in Germany; the oldest of whom is ], aged {{age in years and days|1901|12|8}}.
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
].]]


{{As of|January 2015}}, the ] (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 59 German citizens who have become "]s", attaining or surpassing 110 years of age. 49 of these were German residents and 10 were emigrants.<ref name="GRG-G-2015"/> The oldest known German alive is Ilse Meingast, born on 14 March 1912, aged {{ayd | 14 March 1912}}. 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.<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19861022&id=acUfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hNgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3991,6562203|title='Oldest woman' dies|newspaper=]|agency=]|date=22 October 1986|access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref>
==Living German supercentenarians==
Below is a list of the ] from Germany and born in Germany. Those listed as 'verified' have been validated by an international body that specifically deals in ] research, such as the ]. Those listed as 'pending' have provided at least one document supporting the claimed age but not the three necessary for validation. Those that are 'unverified' have provided no documents to support the age claimed.


== 100 oldest Germans ==
{{legend2|#F9F9F9|Verified|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#9BDDFF|Pending|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend2|#F9F9F9|Deceased|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend2|#99FF99|Living|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#FFB6B6|Unverified|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Rank
! Name
! Sex
! data-sort-type="date" | Birth date
! data-sort-type="date" | Death date
! Age
! Birthplace
! Place of death <br/> or residence


{|class="wikitable"
!Rank
!Name
!Sex
!Birth date
!Age as of {{date}}
!State of birth
!State of residence
|- |-
|1 | {{0}}1
|Gertrud Henze<ref name="GRG"/> | data-sort-value="Holtz" | Augusta Holtz<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 3 August 1871
|8 December 1901
| 21 October 1986
|{{age in years and days|1901|12|8}}
| {{ayd|1871|8|3|1986|10|21}}
|Prussia (Pomerania)
| ]{{efn|Holtz was born in Czarnikau, then in the ], now ] in ].}}
|Lower Saxony
| ]
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
|
|Frieda Szwillus<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.freiepresse.de/NACHRICHTEN/TOP-THEMA/Sachsens-aeltester-Mensch-wird-heute-110-Jahre-alt-artikel7947668.php |title=Sachsens ältester Mensch wird heute 110 Jahre alt|language=German |newspaper=] |date=March 30, 2012 |first=Samira |last=Sachse }}</ref>
|align=center|F
|30 March 1902
|{{age in years and days|1902|3|30}}
|Anhalt
|Saxony
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
|
|Johanna Klink<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.oaz-online.de/oschatz/web/regional/kultur/detail/-/specific/Oschatzerin-ist-mit-111-Jahren-aelteste-Saechsin-975758758 |title=Oschatzerin ist mit 111 Jahren älteste Sächsin |newspaper=Oschatzer Allgemeine Zeitung |date=17 January 2014 }}</ref>
|align=center|F
|17 January 1903
|{{age in years and days|1903|1|17}}
|Prussia (Silesia)
|Saxony
|-bgcolor="9BDDFF"
|
|Margarete Ottmann<ref name="GRGEE"></ref>
|align=center|F
|23 February 1903
|{{age in years and days|1903|2|23}}
|Prussia (Silesia)
|Bavaria
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
|
|Margarete Staack <ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bild.de/regional/leipzig/alter/wie-lustig-ist-es-110-zu-werden-30078352.bild.html |title=Wie lustig ist es wirklich, 110 zu werden? |newspaper=bild.de |date=21 April 2013 }}</ref>
|align=center|F
|24 April 1903
|{{age in years and days|1903|4|24}}
|Saxony
|Saxony
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
|
|Charlotte Klamroth <ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pfalz-express.de/110-jahre-charlotte-klamroth-aus-ludwigshafen-ist-alteste-rheinland-pfalzerin-malu-dreyer-gratuliert/|title= 110 Jahre: Charlotte Klamroth aus Ludwigshafen ist älteste Rheinland-Pfälzerin
|newspaper=Pfalz Express |date=19 August 2013 }}</ref>
|align=center|F
|18 August 1903
|{{age in years and days|1903|8|18}}
|Saxony
|Rhineland-Palatinate
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
|
|Elisabeth Franke<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.presse-service.de/data.cfm/static/867033.html |title=110 Jahre: Älteste Bürgerin der Stadt feierte runden Geburtstag }}</ref>
|align=center|F
|10 November 1903
|{{age in years and days|1903|11|10}}
|Prussia (Silesia)
|North Rhine-Westphalia
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
|
|Rosa Rose<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nordhorn.de/magazin/artikel.php?artikel=1098&menuid=45 |title=
Rosa Rose feierte 110. Geburtstag}}</ref>
|align=center|F
|4 December 1903
|{{age in years and days|1903|12|04}}
|?
|Lower Saxony
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
|}


==German supercentenarians==
{{legend2|#F9F9F9|Deceased (Verified)|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#99FF99|Living (Verified)|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#9BDDFF|Pending|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{|class="wikitable"
!Rank
!Name
!Sex
!Birth date
!Death date
!Age
!State or Country of birth
!State of death
|- |-
| {{0}}2
|1
| data-sort-value="Kretschmann" | ]<ref name="2024-Deaths"/>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 3 December 1909
|12 February 1889
| 27 August 2024<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 August 2024 |title=Sie war die älteste Frau Deutschlands: Charlotte Kretschmann gestorben |trans-title=She was the oldest woman in Germany: Charlotte Kretschmann died |url=https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/stuttgart/charlotte-kretschmann-aelteste-frau-deutschlands-gestorben-100.html |access-date=28 August 2024 |website=]}}</ref>
|9 February 2002
|112 years, 362 days | 114 years, 268 days
| ]{{efn|Kretschmann was born in Breslau, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|] (])
|] | ]

|-bgcolor="9BDDFF"
|
|Rosalia Hasenkampf<ref name="GRGEE"></ref>
|align=center|F
|14 October 1889
|10 July 2002
|112 years, 269 days
|]{{ref label|Hasenkampf|a}}
|]
|-bgcolor="99FF99"
|2
|]<ref name="GRG"/>
|align=center|F
|8 December 1901
|Living
|{{age in years and days|1901|12|8}}
|Prussia (Pomerania)
|Living in ]
|-
|3
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F
|9 November 1889
|28 December 2001
|112 years, 49 days
|Prussia (]){{ref label|Berndt|b}}
|North Rhine-Westphalia
|- |-
| {{0}}3
|4
| data-sort-value="Benkner" | ]<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2007"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 16 November 1889
|20 September 1895
| 14 May 2004
|5 October 2007
|112 years, 15 days | 114 years, 180 days
| ]
|Prussia (])
| United States
|]

|- |-
| {{0}}4
|5
| data-sort-value="Gerneth" | ]<ref name="Welt"/>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | M
| 15 October 1905
|20 November 1892
| 21 October 2019<ref name="Gerneth-death"/>
|28 August 2004
|111 years, 282 days | 114 years, 6 days
| ]{{efn|Gerneth was born in Stettin, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|]
|] | ]

|- |-
| {{0}}5
|6
| data-sort-value="Ollmann" | Josefine Ollmann<ref name="GRG-Historical"/>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|M | align=center | F
| 11 November 1908
|27 May 1893
| 16 July 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/hamburg-aktuell/aelteste-frau-deutschlands-gestorben-geheimnis-von-113-jahren-80798878.bild.html|title=Mit Josefine Ollmann ist die älteste Frau Deutschlands Gestorben: Das Geheimnis von 113 Jahren Leben|trans-title=With Josefine Ollmann, the Oldest Woman in Germany Is Dead: The Secret of 113 Years of Life|website=]|last=Röthemeier|first=Thomas|date=24 July 2022|access-date=24 July 2022|language=de}}</ref>
|2 March 2005
|111 years, 279 days | 113 years, 247 days
| ]
|Prussia (Rhine Province)
| ]
|North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
| {{0}}6
|7
| data-sort-value="Mohrs" | Luzia Mohrs<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|5 March 1891 | 23 March 1904
| 16 October 2017
|19 November 2002
|111 years, 259 days | 113 years, 207 days
| ]
|Prussia (Hesse-Nassau)
| ]
|Lower Saxony

|- |-
| {{0}}7
|8
| data-sort-value="Schaaf" | Louise Schaaf<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 16 October 1906
|11 July 1893
| 25 April 2020
|3 February 2005
|111 years, 207 days | 113 years, 192 days
|] | ]
| United States
|]

|- |-
| {{0}}8
|9
| data-sort-value="Brosig" | Erna Brosig<ref name="2024-Deaths"/>
|]<ref name="World's Oldest People in 1994"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 15 January 1911
|16 August 1881
| 23 July 2024<ref>{{cite web |date=27 July 2024 |title=Sie starb mit 113 Jahren: Erna Brosig war die älteste Hannoveranerin aller Zeiten |trans-title=She died at the age of 113: Erna Brosig was the oldest Hanoverian of all time |url=https://www.haz.de/lokales/hannover/aelteste-hannoveranerin-ist-tot-erna-brosig-starb-mit-113-jahren-3YSNX4DV5VDG7KACJY7K6EOYUU.html |access-date=27 July 2024 |publisher=haz.de |language=de}}</ref>
|24 February 1993
|111 years, 192 days | 113 years, 190 days
| Silesia{{efn|Brosig was born in Breslau, then in the German Empire, now Wrocław in Poland.}}
|Prussia (])
| ]
|Baden-Württemberg

|- |-
| {{0}}9
|10
| data-sort-value="Drymalski" | Mary Drymalski<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/united-states/|title=List of validated supercentenarians in the United States|publisher=Gerontology Research Group|access-date=1 January 2025}}</ref>
|]<ref name="GRG"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 22 July 1880
|19 August 1901
| 1 December 1993
|9 February 2013
| {{ayd | 22 July 1880 | 1 December 1993}}
|111 years, 174 days
| ]{{efn|name=USA|Drymalski was born in Culm, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|Prussia (Westphalia)
| United States
|Lower Saxony

|- |-
|11 | 10
| data-sort-value="Aulenbacher" | Maria Aulenbacher<ref name="2023-Deaths"/>
|]<ref name="GRG Table B2"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 7 November 1909
|23 September 1867
| 8 February 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/maria-aulenbacher-obituary?id=43639997|title=Maria Aulenbacher Obituary|publisher=Thomas McAfee Funeral Home|date=10 February 2023|access-date=12 February 2023}}</ref>
|5 February 1979
| {{ayd | 7 November 1909 | 8 February 2023}}
|111 years, 135 days
| ]
|] (])
| United States
|Rhineland-Palatinate

|- |-
|12 | 11
| data-sort-value="Kirschbaum" | Adelheid Kirschbaum<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| nowrap|29 September 1883
|25 March 1892
| 21 December 1996
|3 August 2003
|111 years, 131 days | 113 years, 83 days
| Rhineland
|]{{ref label|Stephan|c}}
| United States
|]

|- |-
|13 | 12
| data-sort-value="Mange" | Mathilde Mange<ref>{{cite news|last=Spruck|first=Matthias|url=https://www.waz.de/staedte/sprockhoevel/die-aelteste-sprockhoevelerin-wurde-zu-kaisers-zeiten-geboren-id212929799.html|title=Die älteste Sprockhövelerin wurde zu Kaisers Zeiten geboren|trans-title=The oldest resident of Sprockhövel was born in the times of the Emperor|newspaper=]|date=23 December 2017|access-date=23 February 2018|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hansmann|first=Rolf|url=https://www.wp.de/staedte/herdecke-wetter/deutschlands-aelteste-frau-wird-112-nicht-aufgeben-was-immer-kommt-id215051385.html|title=Deutschlands älteste Frau wird 112: "Nicht aufgeben, was immer kommt"|trans-title=Oldest woman in Germany turns 112: "Don't give up, whatever happens"|newspaper=]|date=10 August 2018|access-date=31 January 2019|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article227514939/Aelteste-Frau-Deutschlands-mit-113-Jahren-gestorben.html|title=Mathilde Mange: Älteste Frau Deutschlands gestorben|date=30 October 2019|language=de}}</ref>
|]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2007" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|10 July 1896 | 10 August 1906
|6 October 2007 | 28 October 2019
|111 years, 88 days | 113 years, 79 days
| Rhineland
|]
|] | ]

|-bgcolor="9BDDFF"
|
|Käthe Wulf<ref name="GRGEE"/>
|align=center|F
|23 March 1902
|19 June 2013
|111 years, 88 days
|?
|Hesse
|- |-
|14 | 13
| data-sort-value="Cernohorsky" | Anna Cernohorsky<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.saechsische.de/bautzen/lokales/aelteste-bautzenerin-feiert-112-geburtstag-5524659.html|title=Älteste Bautzenerin feiert 112. Geburtstag|publisher=]|date=13 September 2021|access-date=14 September 2021|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.saechsische.de/bautzen/lokales/aelteste-bautzenerin-ist-auch-aelteste-frau-deutschlands-113-geburtstag-5733200-plus.html|title=Bautzen: Älteste Frau Deutschlands hat Geburtstag|publisher=]|date=13 September 2022|access-date=13 September 2022|language=de}}</ref>
|]<ref name="GRG Table B2"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 13 September 1909
|11 March 1891
| 18 September 2022<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.moz.de/nachrichten/panorama/aelteste-frau-deutschlands-ist-tot-anna-cernohorsky-aus-bautzen-in-sachsen-mit-113-jahren-gestorben-66670365.html|title=Anna Cernohorsky aus Bautzen in Sachsen mit 113 Jahren gestorben|publisher=]|date=21 September 2022|access-date=21 September 2022|language=de}}</ref>
|29 May 2002
|111 years, 79 days | 113 years, 5 days
| ]{{efn|Cernohorsky was born in Molschen, ], then part of ], now ] in the ].}}
|]
|Lower Saxony | ]

|- |-
|15 | 14
|Else Aßmann<ref name="GRG"/> | data-sort-value="Laqua" | ]<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|align=center|F | align="center" | F
|18 February 1902 | 12 February 1889
|15 February 2013 | 9 February 2002
|110 years, 363 days | 112 years, 362 days
| Rhineland
|Prussia (])
| ]
|Berlin

|-bgcolor="9BDDFF"
|
|Margarete Ottmann<ref name="GRGEE"/>
|align=center|F
|23 February 1903
|Living
|{{age in years and days|1903|2|23}}
|Prussia (])
|Living in Bavaria
|- |-
|16 | 15
| data-sort-value="Rein" | ]<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Aloysia Tilscher<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 24 March 1897
|9 December 1893
| 14 February 2010
|8 November 2004
|110 years, 335 days | 112 years, 327 days
| Silesia{{efn|Rein was born in Myslowitz, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|]{{ref label|Tilscher|d}}
| ]
|Bavaria

|- |-
|-bgcolor=99FF99
|17
| bgcolor=F9F9F9|16
|]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2010"></ref>
| data-sort-value="Meingast" | Ilse Meingast<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/world-supercentenarian-rankings-list/ |title=World Supercentenarian Rankings List |publisher=grg-supercentenarians.org |access-date=6 October 2024}}</ref>
|align=center|F
| align=center | F
|15 December 1899
| 14 March 1912
|6 November 2010
| Living
|110 years, 326 days
| {{ayd | 14 March 1912 }}
|Prussia (Brandenburg)
|] | ]
| United States

|- |-
|18 | 17
|]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2010"/> | data-sort-value="Bechler" | Anna Bechler<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 28 September 1907
|2 February 1900
| 29 July 2020
|1 December 2010
|110 years, 302 days | 112 years, 305 days
| Bavaria
|]{{ref label|Zeisler|e}}
| United States
|Rhineland-Palatinate

|- |-
|19 | 18
| data-sort-value="Hasenkampf" | Rosalia Hasenkampf<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/2019-validations/ |title=2019 validations |publisher=grg-supercentenarians.org |access-date=4 December 2024}}</ref>
|Gisela Metreweli<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2004"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|10 October 1893 | 14 October 1889
|31 July 2004 | 10 July 2002
|110 years, 295 days | 112 years, 269 days
| ]{{efn|Hasenkampf was born in Glarus in the ], then in the ].}}
|Bavaria
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|Bavaria

|- |-
|20 | 19
| data-sort-value="Gorecka"|Gertruda Gorecka<ref>{{cite web|url=https://longeviquest.com/2023/11/gertruda-gorecka-ontarios-second-oldest-person-turns-112/|title=Gertruda Gorecka, Ontario’s Second-Oldest Person, Turns 112|first=Lennard Ashley|last=Salaysay|publisher=LongeviQuest|date=12 November 2023|access-date=13 November 2023}}</ref>
|Marie Stutz<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2007" />
|align=center|F | align=center|F
| 12 November 1911
|22 October 1896
| 25 June 2024<ref>{{cite web|url=https://windsorchapel.com/tribute/details/12999/Gertruda-Gorecka/obituary.html|title=Obituary of Gertruda Gorecka|publisher=windsorchapel.com|access-date=30 June 2024}}</ref>
|11 August 2007
|110 years, 293 days | 112 years, 226 days
| West Prussia{{efn|Gorecka was born in Kamlau, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|]
| ]
|Bavaria

|- |-
|21 | 20
| data-sort-value="Smuda" | Lydia Smuda<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article215737053/Hamburgs-aelteste-Frau-feiert-112-Geburtstag.html |title=Hamburgs älteste Frau feiert 112. Geburtstag |language=de |trans-title=Oldest woman in Hamburg celebrates her 112th birthday |newspaper=] |first=Katy |last=Krause |date=6 November 2018 |access-date=7 November 2018}}</ref>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 6 November 1906
|18 October 1894
| 6 June 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article226143451/Aelteste-Hamburgerin-gestorben-tot-112-Jahre-Lydia-Smuda-Klitschko.html|title=Älteste Hamburgerin mit 112 Jahren gestorben|first=Katy|last=Krause|date=11 June 2019|website=www.abendblatt.de|access-date=23 October 2019}}</ref>
|21 July 2005
| {{ayd | 6 November 1906 | 6 June 2019}}
|110 years, 276 days
| Rhineland
|Prussia (Brandenburg)
| ]
|Brandenburg

|- |-
|22 | 21
|]<ref name="GRG Table B2"/> | data-sort-value="Szwillus" | ]<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 30 March 1902
|24 April 1886
| nowrap|21 September 2014
|11 January 1997
|110 years, 262 days | 112 years, 175 days
| ]
|Prussia (Silesia)
| Saxony
|Bavaria

|- |-
|23 | 22
| data-sort-value="Petit" | Marguerite Petit<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Frieda Tessmer<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2008"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|5 August 1897 | 5 July 1883
| 21 December 1995
|28 March 2008
|110 years, 236 days | 112 years, 171 days
| ]{{efn|name=Lorraine|Petit and Zeisler were born in ], then part of the German Empire, now in France.}}
|Prussia (Brandenburg)
| ]
|Berlin

|- |-
|24 | 23
| data-sort-value="Endres" | Babette Endres<ref>{{cite web |url=https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarians/babette-endres/ |title=Babette Endres |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=30 January 2024|access-date=31 January 2024}}</ref>
|Clothilde Rey<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 1 August 1910
|20 November 1892
| 12 January 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trauer.kurier.de/traueranzeige/babette-endres|title=Babette Endres|language=de|publisher=]|date=4 February 2023|access-date=12 February 2023}}</ref>
|9 July 2003
| {{ayd | 1 August 1910 | 12 January 2023}}
|110 years, 231 days
| Bavaria
|Prussia (Rhine Province)
| Baden-Württemberg
|North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
|25 | 24
| data-sort-value="Rosenberg" | Berta Rosenberg<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Erna Scharfenberg<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 5 September 1896
|26 June 1894
|26 January 2005 | 28 January 2009
|110 years, 214 days | 112 years, 145 days
| Hesse-Nassau
|]
| United States
|Schleswig-Holstein

|- |-
|26 | 25
| data-sort-value="Henze" | ]<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|Mathilde Stoellger<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2003"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 8 December 1901
|21 April 1893
| 22 April 2014
|16 November 2003
|110 years, 209 days | 112 years, 135 days
| Pomerania
|Prussia (Rhine Province)
| Lower Saxony
|North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
|27 | 26
| data-sort-value="Huber" | {{nowrap|Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/suedwestumschau/geistig-fit-mit-112_-die-aelteste-deutsche-ist-eine-karlsruherin-24266994.html|title=Senioren: Geistig fit mit 112: Die älteste Deutsche ist eine Karlsruherin|first=Südwest Presse Online-Dienste|last=GmbH|date=7 December 2017|website=swp.de|access-date=9 February 2018}}</ref>
|Karolina Gröber<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2011"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 7 December 1905
|27 April 1901
| 9 April 2018
|21 November 2011
|110 years, 208 days | 112 years, 123 days
| ]
|Bavaria
| Baden-Württemberg
|Bavaria

|- |-
|28 | 27
| data-sort-value="Fenners" | Therese Fenners<ref>{{cite news |url=https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/viersen/seniorenheim-in-viersen-aelteste-frau-deutschlands-stirbt-im-alter-von-112-jahren_aid-23583019 |title=Älteste Frau Deutschlands stirbt im Alter von 112 Jahren |trans-title=Oldest German woman dies aged 112 |newspaper=] |date=24 June 2018 |access-date=31 January 2019|language=de}}</ref>
|]<ref name="GRG Table B2"/>
|align=center|M | align=center | F
| 8 March 1906
|10 October 1862
| 23 June 2018
|5 May 1973
|110 years, 207 days | 112 years, 107 days
| Rhineland
|]
|North Rhine-Westphalia | North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
|29 | 28
| data-sort-value="Traenkner" | Elisabeth Tränkner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tagblatt.de/Nachrichten/Die-Rottenburgerin-Elisabeth-Traenkner-ist-im-Alter-von-112-Jahren-gestorben-393272.html|title=Die Rottenburgerin Elisabeth Tränkner ist im Alter von 112 Jahren gestorben|website=]|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|15 August 1878 | 11 August 1906
| 7 November 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tuebingen.trauer.de/traueranzeige/elisabetha-rosa-traenkner|title=Gedenkseite von Elisabetha Rosa Tränkner|website=tuebingen.trauer.de|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref>
|8 March 1989
| {{ayd|1906|8|11|2018|11|7}}
|110 years, 205 days
| Hesse-Nassau
|]{{ref label|Corba|f}}
| Baden-Württemberg
|North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
|30 | 29
|Charlotte Bauch<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2011"/> | data-sort-value="Berndt" | Meta Berndt<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 9 November 1889
|12 October 1900
| 28 December 2001
|2 May 2011
|110 years, 202 days | 112 years, 49 days
| Pomerania{{efn|Berndt was born in Kaffzig, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|]
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|Bavaria

|- |-
|31 | 30
| data-sort-value="Klink" | Johanna Klink<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|Arno Wagner<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|M | align=center | F
| 17 January 1903
|4 June 1894
| 20 February 2015
|22 December 2004
|110 years, 201 days | 112 years, 34 days
| Silesia{{efn|Klink was born in Siemianowitz, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|Saxony
|] | Saxony

|- |-
|32 | 31
| data-sort-value="von Stephani" | Irmgard von Stephani<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Franziska Umrath<ref name="GRG Deaths in 1996"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|5 September 1885 | 20 September 1895
| 5 October 2007
|18 February 1996
|110 years, 166 days | 112 years, 15 days
| Hesse-Nassau
|Prussia (]){{ref label|Umrath|g}}
| ]
|Hamburg

|- |-
|33 | 32
| data-sort-value="Rau_H" | Hildegard 'Hilda' Rau<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asb-heilbronn.de/de-de/service/aktuelles/bericht/110-geburtstag-im-asb-seniorenzentrum-am-heuchelberg-in-leingarten/id/734|title=110. Geburtstag im ASB Seniorenzentrum am Heuchelberg in Leingarten|website=www.asb-heilbronn.de|date=2 August 2022|access-date=8 March 2023|language=de}}</ref>
|Johanne Rasmus<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2007" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 31 July 1912
|25 October 1896
| 29 July 2024<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trauerundgedenken.de/traueranzeige/hilda-rau|title=Traueranzeige Hildegard Rau|website=www.trauerundgedenken.de|date=3 August 2024|access-date=3 August 2024|language=de}}</ref>
|25 March 2007
|110 years, 151 days | 111 years, 364 days
|Prussia (]) | ]
| Baden-Württemberg
|Lower Saxony

|-bgcolor="9BDDFF"
|
|Maria Volmer<ref name="GRGEE"/>
|align=center|F
|8 June 1890
|6 November 2000
|110 years, 151 days
|Prussia (Westphalia)
|North Rhine-Westphalia
|- |-
|34 | 33
|Helene Heidbreder<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2007" /> | data-sort-value="Bodenbender" | Katherine Bodenbender<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|19 May 1897 | 19 April 1905
| 16 April 2017
|8 October 2007
|110 years, 142 days | 111 years, 362 days
| Hesse-Nassau
|Prussia (Westphalia)
| United States
|Lower Saxony

|-bgcolor="9BDDFF"
|
|Maria Jantke<ref name="GRGEE"/>
|align=center|F
|18 October 1902
|9 March 2013
|110 years, 142 days
|Prussia (West Prussia){{ref label|Jantke|h}}
|North Rhine-Westphalia
|- |-
|35 | 34
| data-sort-value="Hagemeyer" | Katharina Hagemeyer<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wp.de/staedte/hagen/zwei-hagenerinnen-feiern-wahrlich-stolze-geburtstage-id215006287.html |title=Käthe Hagemeyer aus Hagen wird heute 110 Jahre alt |language=de |trans-title=Käthe Hagemeyer of Hagen turns 110 today |first=Yvonne |last=Hinz |date=4 August 2018 |access-date=17 August 2018}}</ref>
|Emma Joisten<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2008" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 4 August 1908
|21 June 1898
| 12 July 2020<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lokalkompass.de/hagen/c-ratgeber/katharina-kaethe-hagemeyer-wurde-111-jahre-alt_a1403457 |title=Katharina "Käthe" Hagemeyer wurde 111 Jahre alt |language=de |trans-title=Katharina "Käthe" Hagemeyer reached age 111 years |first=Stephan |last=Faber |date=15 July 2020 |access-date=31 July 2020}}</ref>
|8 November 2008
|110 years, 140 days | 111 years, 343 days
| Rhineland
|Prussia (Hesse-Nassau)
|North Rhine-Westphalia | North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
|36 | 35
| data-sort-value="Rodenstein" | Adele Rodenstein<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.waz.de/staedte/duisburg/gratulation-aelteste-duisburgerin-feiert-111-geburtstag-id226978515.html|title=Gratulation! Älteste Duisburgerin feiert 111. Geburtstag |website=waz.de |language=de |date=3 September 2019|access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref>
|Johanne Wilks<ref name="GRG Table B2"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 3 September 1908
|8 February 1893
| 18 July 2020
|23 June 2003
|110 years, 135 days | 111 years, 319 days
| Rhineland{{efn|Rodenstein was born in ], which was then part of the Prussian ]. Since 1920 it is part of the ] region in ].}}
|]
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|Lower Saxony

|- |-
| 36
|rowspan=2|37
| data-sort-value="Schorn" | Ida Schorn<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/united-states/|title=List of validated supercentenarians in the United States|publisher=Gerontology Research Group|access-date=1 January 2025}}</ref>
|]<ref name="GRGCCCC"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|19 May 1852 | 4 May 1864
| 8 March 1976
|19 September 1962
| {{ayd | 4 May 1864 | 8 March 1976}}
|110 years, 123 days
| Pomerania{{efn|Schorn was born in Ratzebuhr, then part of ] in the ], now ] in Poland.}}
|Russia{{ref label|Rentel|i}}
| United States
|North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
| 37
|Lina von Veh<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2008" />
| data-sort-value="Kuepper" | Anna Küpper<ref>{{cite news|last=Müller|first=Silke|url=https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/aus-den-lokalredaktionen/kreis-ahrweiler_artikel,-kaiser-kriege-und-wiedervereinigung-erlebt-anna-kuepper-feiert-110-geburtstag-_arid,1915722.html|title=Kaiser, Kriege und Wiedervereinigung erlebt: Anna Küpper feiert 110. Geburtstag|trans-title=Emperor, Wars and Reunification witnessed: Anna Küpper celebrates 110th birthday|newspaper=]|date=29 December 2018|access-date=1 December 2019|language=de}}</ref>
|align=center|F
| align=center | F
|17 February 1898
| 29 December 1908
|19 June 2008
| 18 October 2020
|110 years, 123 days
| 111 years, 294 days
|Russia{{ref label|von Veh|j}}
| Rhineland
|Bavaria
| Rhineland-Palatinate

|- |-
|39 | 38
| data-sort-value="Zimmer" | Lina Zimmer<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Maria Schmitz<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 20 November 1892
|27 August 1886
| 28 August 2004
|22 October 1996
|110 years, 56 days | 111 years, 282 days
| Württemberg
|Prussia (Rhine Province)
| Baden-Württemberg
|North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
|40 | 39
||]<ref name="GRG Table B2"/> | data-sort-value="Doernemann" | ]<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|align=center|M | align=center | M
| 27 May 1893
|3 February 1889
|29 March 1999 | 2 March 2005
|110 years, 54 days | 111 years, 279 days
| Rhineland
|Bavaria
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|Bavaria

|-bgcolor="9BDDFF"
|
|Thea Breckerbaum<ref name="GRGEE"/>
|align=center|F
|6 October 1902
|25 November 2012
|110 years, 50 days
|Prussia (]){{ref label|Breckerbaum|k}}
|Hesse
|- |-
|41 | 40
|Franziska Maier<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2008" /> | data-sort-value="Johnson" | Helen Johnson<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 20 July 1896
|23 April 1898
|20 May 2008 | 17 April 2008
|110 years, 27 days | 111 years, 272 days
| Brandenburg
|Bohemia{{ref label|Maier|l}}
| United States
|]

|- |-
|42 | 41
| data-sort-value="Klamroth" | Charlotte Klamroth<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|Irene Mergelsberg<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 18 August 1903
|4 March 1893
| 16 May 2015
|6 March 2003
|110 years, 2 days | 111 years, 271 days
| ]
|Hesse
| Rhineland-Palatinate
|Hesse
|}
<small>
a{{note|Hasenkampf}} Hasenkampf was born in a part of the ]. It is now in Russia.<br>
b{{note|Berndt}} Berndt was born in Kaffzig, which had then been a part of the ]; it is presently ] and located in ].<br>
c{{note|Stephan}} Stephan was born in Bohemia, which was then part of the Austrian part of ]. It is now in the ].<br>
d{{note|Tilscher}} Tilscher was born in Moravia, which was then part of the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary. It is now in the Czech Republic.<br>
e{{note|Zeisler}} Zeisler was born in Lorraine, which was then part of the German Empire. It is now in ].<br>
f{{note|Corba}} Corba was born in Izgar, which was then part of the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary. It is now in ].<br>
g{{note|Umrath}} Umrath was born in ], which was then part of the German Empire; it is presently Gdańsk and located in Poland.<br>
h{{note|Jantke}} Jantke was born in ], which was then part of the German Empire; it is presently Malbork and located in Poland.<br>
i{{note|Rentel}} Rentel was born in Geldauschinken, which was then part of the Russian Empire. It is now in ].<br>
j{{note|von Veh}} von Veh was born in a part of the Russian Empire. It is now in Russia.<br>
k{{note|Breckerbaum}} Breckerbaum was born in Neudorf bei Wronke, which was then part of the German Empire; it is presently Nowa Wieś koło Wronek and located in Poland.<br>
l{{note|Maier}} Maier was born in Bohemia, which was then part of the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary. It is now in the Czech Republic.<br>
</small>


===German emigrant supercentenarians===
{|class="wikitable"
!Rank
!Name
!Sex
!Birth date
!Death date
!Age
!State of birth
!Country of death
|- |-
|1 | 42
| data-sort-value="Regener" | Magdalene Regener<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]<ref name="GRGCCCCC"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 5 March 1891
|3 August 1871
| 19 November 2002
|21 October 1986
|115 years, 79 days | 111 years, 259 days
| Hesse-Nassau
|Prussia (Posen){{ref label|Holtz|m}}
| Lower Saxony
|]

|- |-
|2 | 43
| data-sort-value="Raissle" | Pauline Raißle<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gea.de/region+reutlingen/neckar+erms/im+herzen+und+kopf+jung+geblieben.4025656.htm |title=Im Herzen und Kopf jung geblieben |date=17 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pressreader.com/germany/badische-neueste-nachrichten-baden-baden/20151212/281775628101239/TextView |title=Der Club der 110-jährigen Damen |date=12 December 2015}}</ref>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|16 November 1889 | 16 December 1905
| 29 August 2017
|14 May 2004
|114 years, 180 days | 111 years, 256 days
| Württemberg
|Saxony
| Baden-Württemberg
|United States

|- |-
|3 | 44
| data-sort-value="Trompeter" | Catherine Trompeter<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 26 March 1895
|29 September 1883
| 18 November 2006
|21 December 1996
|113 years, 83 days | 111 years, 237 days
| ]{{efn|name=Alsace|Trompeter <!--and Dott were-->was born in ], then part of the German Empire, now in France.}}
|Prussia (Rhine Province)
| France
|United States

|- |-
|4 | 45
| data-sort-value="Heck" | Elisabeth Heck<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Rosa Rein<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2010"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 11 July 1893
|24 March 1897
|14 February 2010 | 3 February 2005
|112 years, 327 days | 111 years, 207 days
| Baden
|Prussia (Silesia){{ref label|Rein|n}}
|] | ]

|- |-
|5 | 46
| data-sort-value="Lankenau" | Adele Lankenau<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/world-supercentenarian-rankings-list/ |title=World Supercentenarian Rankings List |publisher=grg-supercentenarians.org |access-date=6 October 2024}}</ref>
|Marguerite Petit<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in France"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 27 March 1913
|5 July 1883
| 6 October 2024<ref>{{cite web |url=https://trauer.weser-kurier.de/traueranzeige/adele-lankenau |title=Traueranzeige Adele Lankenau |publisher=trauer.weser-kurier.de |date=19 October 2024 |access-date=31 October 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
|21 December 1995
|112 years, 171 days | 111 years, 193 days
| ]
|Lorraine{{ref label|Petit|o}}
| Lower Saxony
|France

|- |-
|6 | 47
| data-sort-value="Baumgaertner" | Paula Baumgärtner<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Berta Rosenberg<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2009"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 16 August 1881
|5 September 1896
| 24 February 1993
|28 January 2009
|112 years, 145 days | 111 years, 192 days
| ]
|Prussia (Hesse-Nassau)
| Baden-Württemberg
|United States

|- |-
|7 | 48
| data-sort-value="Ziegenhagel" | Adele Ziegenhagel<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rz-trauer.de/traueranzeige/adele-ziegenhagel |title=Traueranzeige von Adele Ziegenhagel |language=de |trans-title=Obituary of Adele Ziegenhagel ⁩|newspaper=] |date=20 January 2018 |access-date=18 December 2021}}</ref>
|]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2008" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|20 July 1896 | 12 July 1906
| 10 January 2018
|17 April 2008
|111 years, 272 days | 111 years, 182 days
|Prussia (Berlin) | (unknown)
| Rhineland-Palatinate
|United States

|- |-
| rowspan=2| 49
|8
| data-sort-value="Ottmann" | Margarete Ottmann<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|Catherine Trompeter<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 23 February 1903
|26 March 1895
| 17 August 2014
|18 November 2006
|111 years, 237 days | rowspan=2| 111 years, 175 days
| Silesia{{efn|Ottmann was born in Bauerwitz, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|]{{ref label|Trompeter|p}}
| ]
|France
|- |-
| data-sort-value="Beck" | Ilse Beck<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trauer.otz.de/traueranzeige/ilse-beck|title=Gedenkseite von Ilse Beck|website=trauer.otz.de}}</ref>
|9
| align=center | F
|]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
| 5 October 1906
|align=center|F
| 29 March 2018
|15 September 1875
| Saxony
|24 November 1986
| ]
|111 years, 70 days

|Hamburg
|United States
|- |-
|10 | 51
|]<ref name="GRG"/> | data-sort-value="Schneider, Elizabeth" | ]<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|align=center|M | align=center | F
| 19 August 1901
|27 January 1902
|7 January 2013 | 9 February 2013
|110 years, 346 days | 111 years, 174 days
| Westphalia
|Württemberg
| Lower Saxony
|United States

|- |-
|11 | 52
| data-sort-value="Borchert" | Frieda Borchert<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|Caroline Dott<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2010"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|5 February 1900 | 5 January 1897
| 22 June 2008
|8 August 2010
|110 years, 184 days | 111 years, 169 days
| Pomerania{{efn|Borchert was born in Gusscht, then in the German Empire, now in Poland.}}
|Alsace{{ref label|Dott|q}}
| Berlin
|France

|- |-
|12 | 53
| data-sort-value="Mehlberg" | Anna Mehlberg<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.noen.at/bruck/bruck-anna-medwenitsch-feiert-111-geburtstag-jubilaeum-anna-medwenitsch/84.116.811|title=Anna Medwenitsch feiert 111. Geburtstag|access-date=2018-03-18|language=de}}</ref>
|Else Hessberg<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2003"/>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|5 December 1892 | 2 December 1906
| 16 May 2018
|12 April 2003
|110 years, 128 days | 111 years, 165 days
| Brandenburg
|Prussia (Hesse-Nassau)
| Berlin
|United States

|- |-
|13 | 54
| data-sort-value="Rose" | Rosa Rose<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|John Mauch<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|M | align=center | F
|24 December 1888 | 4 December 1903
| 25 April 2015
|7 March 1999
|110 years, 73 days | 111 years, 142 days
| Hanover
|Württemberg
| Lower Saxony
|United States

|- |-
|-bgcolor=99FF99
|14
| bgcolor=F9F9F9|55
|Giovanna Meyer-Zettel<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
| data-sort-value="Enthof" | Ida Enthof<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://paz.de/artikel/wo-der-bundespraesident-krone-traegt-a10892.html |title = Wo der Bundespräsident Krone trägt| publisher=paz.de | first=Bernhard |last=Knappstein |date=26 March 2024 |access-date=18 November 2024|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/world-supercentenarian-rankings-list/ |title=World Supercentenarian Rankings List |publisher=grg-supercentenarians.org |access-date=6 October 2024}}</ref>
|align=center|F
| align=center | F
|6 December 1896
| 7 September 1913
|12 January 2007
| Living
|110 years, 37 days
| {{ayd | 7 September 1913 }}
|Alsace{{ref label|Meyer-Zettel|r}}
| ]{{efn|Enthof was born in Königsgut, then in East Prussia, now ] in ], Poland.}}
|]
| Lower Saxony

|- |-
|15 | 56
| data-sort-value="Krueger" | Karolina Krüger<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|Wilhelmine Gnueg<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2004"></ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 17 February 1885
|12 March 1894
| 3 July 1996
|17 April 2004
|110 years, 36 days | 111 years, 137 days
| Rhineland
|Prussia (Hesse-Nassau)
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|United States

|- |-
|16 | 57
| data-sort-value="Braun" | Katharina Braun<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Mathilde Bonzo-Wrede<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in Germany" />
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 23 September 1867
|29 May 1890
| 5 February 1979
|8 June 2000
|110 years, 10 days | 111 years, 135 days
| Bavaria (])
|Prussia (Westphalia)
| Rhineland-Palatinate
|Switzerland
|}
<small>
m{{note|Holtz}} Holtz was born in Czarnikau, which was then part of the German Empire; it is presently ] and located in Poland.<br>
n{{note|Rein}} Rein was born in Myslowitz, which was then part of the German Empire; it is presently ] and located in Poland.<br>
o{{note|Petit}} Petit was born in Lorraine, which was then part of the German Empire. It is now in France.<br>
p{{note|Trompeter}} Trompeter was born in Alsace, which was then part of the German Empire. It is now in France.<br>
q{{note|Dott}} Dott was born in Alsace, which was then part of the German Empire. It is now in France.<br>
r{{note|Meyer-Zettel}} Meyer-Zettel was born in Alsace, which was then part of the German Empire. It is now in France.<br>
</small>


|-
==Oldest German person by state==
| 58
This is a list of the oldest people by birth from each ]—according to today's borders
| data-sort-value="Stephan" | Anna Stephan<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
| align=center | F
| 25 March 1892
| 3 August 2003
| 111 years, 131 days
| Bohemia{{efn|name=Bohemia|Stephan was born in Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.}}
| Bavaria


|-
{{legend2|#F9F9F9|Deceased (Verified)|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| 59
{{legend2|#99FF99|Living (Verified)|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| data-sort-value="Reichenstein" | Friedrich Reichenstein<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarian/friedrich-reichenstein/|title=Friedrich Reichenstein|author=Georg Fuerholzer|work=LongeviQuest|date=24 June 2024|access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref>
{{legend2|#9BDDFF|Pending|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| align=center | M
{{legend2|#FFB6B6|Unverified|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| 1 February 1906
| 9 June 2017
| 111 years, 128 days
| Westphalia
| ]


{|class="wikitable"
!State
!Name
!Sex
!Birth date
!Death date
!Age
|- |-
| 60
|Baden-Württemberg
| data-sort-value="Higelin" | Maria-Anna Higelin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarian/maria-anna-higelin/|title=Maria-Anna Higelin|work=LongeviQuest|date=7 May 2002|access-date=19 January 2025}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|20 November 1892 | 18 November 1882
| 21 March 1994
|4 August 2004
| {{ayd | 18 November 1882 | 21 March 1994}}
|111 years, 282 days
| | Alsace{{efn|Higelin was born in ], then part of the German Empire, now located in France.}}
| France

|- |-
| 61
|Bavaria
| data-sort-value="Braun" | Anna Braun<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moz.de/lokales/fuerstenwalde/soziales-und-demografie-anna-braun-feiert-in-steinhoefel-110.-geburtstag-_-in-der-staatskanzlei-in-potsdam-ist-sie-nicht-bekannt-57893033.html|title=Soziales und Demografie: Anna Braun feiert in Steinhöfel 110. Geburtstag – in der Staatskanzlei in Potsdam ist sie nicht bekannt|first=Märkisches|last=Medienhaus|date=5 July 2021|website=moz.de}}</ref>
|Gisela Metreweli
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 5 July 1911
|10 October 1893
| 29 October 2022<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 October 2022 |title=111-Jährige aus Steinhöfel bei Fürstenwalde verstorben |language=German |trans-title=111-year-old from Steinhöfel near Fürstenwalde died |work=] |url=https://www.moz.de/lokales/fuerstenwalde/eine-der-aeltesten-frauen-deutschlands-ist-tot-anna-braun-aus-steinhoefel-mit-111-verstorben-67352289.html |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
|31 July 2004
| {{ayd | 5 July 1911 | 29 October 2022}}
|110 years, 295 days
| (unknown)
| ]

|- |-
| 62
|Berlin
| data-sort-value="Teichgräber" | Gertrud Teichgräber<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://longeviquest.com/2024/03/new-validation-gertrud-teichgraber-1908-2020-of-germany/|title=New Validation – Gertrud Teichgräber of Germany|work=LongeviQuest|author=Lennard Ashley Salaysay|date=31 March 2024|access-date=3 April 2024}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 22 November 1908
|20 July 1896
| 16 March 2020
|17 April 2008
| {{ayd | 22 November 1908 | 16 March 2020}}
|111 years, 272 days
| Brandenburg
| Lower Saxony

|- |-
| 63
|Brandenburg
| data-sort-value="Matthiesen" | {{nowrap|Anne Matthiesen (née Jensen)}}<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Else Aßmann
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 26 November 1884
|18 February 1902
| 19 March 1996
|15 February 2013
| {{ayd | 26 November 1884 | 19 March 1996}}
|110 years, 363 days
| ]{{efn|Matthiesen was born in Hadersleben<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/churchbook/sogn334/churchlisting8210/opslag2741251 |title = Haderslev Vor Frue parish, Haderslev, Haderslev - Churchbooks}}</ref> (now ]), in the Northern Schleswig region, then part of Prussia, which was reunited with Denmark in 1920. She died in the same region.}}
| ]

|- |-
| 64
|]
| data-sort-value="Blohm" | Gertrud Blohm<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nnn.de/lokales/rostock/artikel/die-aelteste-rostockerin-gertrud-blohm-wird-111-jahre-alt-45449179 |title=Gertrud Blohm aus Warnemünde feiert 111. Geburtstag |language=de |trans-title=Gertrud Blohm from Warnemünde celebrates her 111th birthday |first=Maria |last=Pistor |publisher=] |date=6 September 2023 |access-date=13 January 2024}}</ref>
|
| align=center | F
|
| 7 September 1912
|
| 29 December 2023<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nnn.de/lokales/rostock/artikel/gertrud-blohm-aelteste-einwohnerin-rostocks-tot-46248623 |title=Älteste Rostockerin Gertrud Blohm mit 111 Jahren gestorben |language=de |trans-title=Gertrud Blohm, the oldest Rostock resident, dies at the age of 111 |first=Maria |last=Pistor |publisher=] |date=11 January 2024 |access-date=13 January 2024}}</ref>
|
| {{ayd | 7 September 1912 | 29 December 2023}}
|
| ]
| ]

|- |-
| 65
|Hamburg
| data-sort-value="Lerchenthal" | Maria Gabriella Lerchenthal<ref>{{cite web|url=https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarians/maria-gabriella-lerchenthal/|title=Maria Gabriella Lerchenthal|publisher=LongeviQuest|date=25 February 2024|access-date=19 March 2024}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 8 June 1913
|15 September 1875
| 13 September 2024
|24 November 1986
| {{ayd | 8 June 1913 | 13 September 2024}}
|111 years, 70 days
| Bavaria
| ]

|- |-
| 66
|Hesse
| data-sort-value="Tauser" | Elsa Tauser<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Berta Rosenberg
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|5 September 1896 | 10 July 1896
| 6 October 2007
|28 January 2009
|112 years, 145 days | 111 years, 88 days
| Hamburg
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
| Schleswig-Holstein
|Lower Saxony

|Elsa Peck
|align=center|F
|20 April 1902
|30 January 2014
|111 years, 285 days
|-bgcolor="99FF99"
|]
|Gertrud Henze
|align=center|F
|8 December 1901
|Living
|{{age in years and days|1901|12|8}}
|- |-
| 67
|North Rhine-Westphalia
| data-sort-value="Lindemann" | Bertha Lindemann<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 11 March 1891
|12 February 1889
|9 February 2002 | 29 May 2002
|112 years, 362 days | 111 years, 79 days
| ]
| Lower Saxony

|- |-
| 68
|Rhineland-Palatinate
| data-sort-value="Frank" | Johanna Frank<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
|29 September 1883 | 15 September 1875
| 24 November 1986
|21 December 1996
|113 years, 83 days | 111 years, 70 days
| Hamburg
| United States

|- |-
| 69
|]
| data-sort-value="Logemann" | {{nowrap|Käthe 'Katie' Logemann}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Ahbeck|first=Bea|url=https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_18d21986-e489-11e7-ae4a-6727322faec2.html|title=Celebrating a centennial — and then some: Family and friends gather for Lodi woman's 110th birthday|work=]|date=19 December 2017|access-date=14 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://traueranzeigen.nwzonline.de/todesanzeige/kaethe-logemann|title=Käthe Logemann, geb. Quitsch|trans-title=Käthe Logemann, born Quitsch|newspaper=]|date=21 February 2019|access-date=24 February 2019|language=de}}</ref>
|
| align=center | F
|
| 15 December 1907
|
| 19 February 2019
|
| {{ayd | 15 December 1907 | 19 February 2019}}
|
| ]
| United States

|- |-
| 70
|Saxony
| data-sort-value="Broytman" | Zhenya Broytman<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/aelteste-frau-in-nrw-wird-111_aid-12564593 |title=Älteste Frau in NRW wird 111 |language=de |trans-title=Oldest person in NRW turns 111 |publisher=rp-online.de |first=Jutta |last=Laege |date=19 August 2010 |access-date=18 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/germany/ |title=List of validated supercentenarians in Germany |publisher=grg-supercentenarians.org |access-date=18 November 2024}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 21 August 1899
|16 November 1889
| 25 October 2010
|14 May 2004
| {{ayd | 21 August 1899 | 25 October 2010 }}
|114 years, 180 days
| ]{{efn|Broytman was born in ], then in the Russian Empire, now part of Ukraine.}}
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|Saxony-Anhalt

|Frieda Szwillus
|align=center|F
|30 March 1902
|Living
|{{age in years and days|1902|3|30}}
|- |-
| 71
|Schleswig-Holstein
| data-sort-value="Kreckmann" | Emilie Kreckmann<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.alloheim.de/pflege-saarbruecken/aktuelles/110-geburtstag-von-emilie-kreckmann |title=110. Geburtstag von Emilie Kreckmann |language=de |trans-title=110th birthday of Emilie Kreckmann |publisher=Alloheim |date=28 October 2022 |access-date=13 January 2024}}</ref>
|
| align=center | F
|
| 28 October 1912
|
| 18 December 2023<ref>{{cite web |url=https://saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de/traueranzeige/emilie-kreckmann |title=Emilie Kreckmann |language=de |publisher=] |date=13 January 2024 |access-date=13 January 2024}}</ref>
|
| {{ayd | 28 October 1912 | 18 December 2023}}
|
| Bavaria
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
|] | ]
|Margarete Siebert
|align=center|F
|8 November 1896
|after 8 November 2004<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thueringen.de/de/homepage/presse/14162/ |title=Althaus gratuliert ältester Thüringerin |work= |date=8 November 2004 }}</ref>
|108+ years
|}


==Chronological list of the oldest living person in Germany since 1989==
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{|class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
!Sex
!Age(s) when oldest
!Lifespan
!State of death
|- |-
| 72
|Unidentified
| data-sort-value="Schlink" | Elisabeth Schlink<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shz.de/lokales/uetersener-nachrichten/uetersenerin-elisabeth-schlink-gehoert-zu-den-aeltesten-buergern-deutschlands-id30484542.html|title = 110. Geburtstag: Uetersenerin Elisabeth Schlink gehört zu den ältesten Bürgern Deutschlands &#124; SHZ.de| date=13 May 2022}}</ref>
|8 March 1989
| align=center | F
|]
| 3 December 1910
|align=center|F
| 24 December 2021<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.shz.de/lokales/uetersener-nachrichten/Aelteste-Uetersenerin-Elisabeth-Schlink-stirbt-mit-111-Jahren-id34593782.html|title = Die älteste Uetersenerin: Elisabeth Schlink stirbt mit 111 Jahren|website=shz.de|author=Plath, Klaus|date=29 December 2021|access-date=31 December 2021|language=de}}</ref>
|? &ndash; 110
| {{ayd | 3 December 1910 | 24 December 2021}}
|15 August 1878 &ndash; 8 March 1989<br> 110 years, 205 days
| West Prussia{{efn|Schlink was born near Schwetz, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
|North Rhine-Westphalia
| Schleswig-Holstein

|- |-
| 73
|8 March 1989 || 30 October 1989<br> ({{age in days|1989|3|8|1989|10|30}} days)
| data-sort-value="Glato" | Feuke Glato<ref>{{cite news|url=https://m.on-online.de/-news/artikel/515502/Aelteste-Auricherin-feiert-110-Geburtstag|title= Älteste Auricherin feiert 110. Geburtstag|website=on-online.de|date=26 December 2018|access-date=6 August 2019|language=de}}</ref>
|Elfried Libbert
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 26 December 1908
|109
| nowrap | 31 December 2019<ref>{{cite news|last=Böhmer|first=Karin|url=https://www.on-online.de/-news/artikel/749037/Auricherin-starb-kurz-nach-ihrem-111-Geburtstag|title=Auricherin starb kurz nach ihrem 111. Geburtstag|trans-title=A woman from Aurich died soon after her 111th birthday|newspaper=Ostfriesische Nachrichten |date=9 January 2020|access-date=11 January 2020|language=de}}</ref>
|5 May 1880 &ndash; 30 October 1989<br> 109 years, 178 days
| {{ayd | 26 December 1908 | 31 December 2019}}
|Hesse
| Hanover
| Lower Saxony

|- |-
| 74
|30 October 1989 || 24 February 1993<br> ({{age in years and days|1989|10|30|1993|2|24}})
| data-sort-value="Assmann" | Else Aßmann<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 18 February 1902
|108 &ndash; 111
| 15 February 2013
|16 August 1881 &ndash; 24 February 1993<br> 111 years, 192 days
| 110 years, 363 days
|Baden-Württemberg
| Brandenburg
| Berlin

|- |-
| 75
|24 February 1993 || 26 April 1993<br> ({{age in days|1993|2|24|1993|4|26}} days)
| data-sort-value="Duisberg" | Dorothea Duisberg<ref>{{cite web|last=Huber|first=Andreas|url=https://club-zur-vahr.de/wp-content/uploads/Dorothea-Duisburg_HP.pdf|title=Aus dem Leben und zum Ehrentag von Dorothea Duisberg, geborene Weyhausen|website=www.club-zur-vahr.de|date=9 December 2022|access-date=2 February 2023|language=de}}</ref>
|Gertrud Pannwitz
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 7 October 1912
|109
| 2 October 2023<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.funerariahogardecristo.com/obituario-funeraria-hogar-de-cristo/110567/ |title=Dorothea Sabine Duisberg Geb. Weyhausen |publisher=Funeraria Hogar de Cristo |date=2 October 2023 |access-date=7 October 2023}}</ref>
|4 November 1883 &ndash; 26 April 1993<br> 109 years, 173 days
| {{ayd | 7 October 1912 | 2 October 2023}}
|Schleswig-Holstein
| ]
| ]

|- |-
| 76
|26 April 1993 || 26 January 1995<br> ({{age in years and days|1993|4|26|1995|1|26}})
| data-sort-value="Schornack" | Johann Schornack<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.essen.de/meldungen/pressemeldung_1460781.de.html |title=110. Geburtstag von Johann Schornack |language=de |trans-title=110th birthday of Johann Schornack |website=Essen.de |date=2 March 2022 |access-date=1 July 2022}}</ref>
|Ottilie Aleith<ref name="Chronicle of Chursdorf mentioning Ottilie Aleith being the oldest person in Thuringia, later also in Germany">{{cite web|url=http://www.chursdorf.info/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printpage&pid=14|title=Chronicle of Chursdorf mentioning Ottilie Aleith being the oldest person in Thuringia, later also in Germany}}</ref>
|align=center|F | align=center | M
| 29 February 1912
|108 &ndash; 109
| 22 February 2023<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.waz.de/staedte/essen/aeltester-essener-stirbt-kurz-vor-seinem-111-geburtstag-id237766019.html |title=Ältester Essener stirbt kurz vor seinem 111. Geburtstag |language=de |trans-title=The oldest Essen resident dies shortly before his 111th birthday |first1=Jule |last1=Hoffmann |first2=Frank |last2=Stenglein |publisher=] |date=27 February 2023 |access-date=27 February 2023}}</ref>
|13 February 1885 &ndash; 26 January 1995<br> 109 years, 347 days
| 110 years, 359 days
|Thuringia
| Rhineland
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|26 January 1995 || 3 July 1996<br> ({{age in years and days|1995|1|26|1996|7|3}})

|Karolina Krüger
|align=center|F
|109 &ndash; 111
|17 February 1885 &ndash; 3 July 1996<br> 111 years, 137 days
|North Rhine-Westphalia
|- |-
| 77
|3 July 1996 || 11 January 1997<br> ({{age in days|1996|7|3|1997|1|11}} days)
| data-sort-value="Matschewsky" | Anna 'Änne' Matschewsky<ref>{{cite web|last=Götz|first=Monika|url=https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/ulm/110-jaehrige-ulmerin-kann-wegen-corona-nicht-feiern-100.html|title=Corona mit 110 Jahren – Feier für älteste Ulmerin fällt aus|website=www.swr.de|date=3 October 2022|access-date=8 March 2023|language=de}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 3 October 1912
|110
| nowrap | 23 September 2023<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 September 2023 |title=ÄNNE MATSCHEWSKY |url=https://www.trauer.swp.de/traueranzeige/aenne-matschewsky |access-date=4 October 2023 |website=Trauer SWP}}</ref>
|24 April 1886 &ndash; 11 January 1997<br> 110 years, 262 days
| {{ayd | 3 October 1912 | 23 September 2023}}
|Bavaria
| Rhineland
| Baden-Württemberg

|- |-
| 78
|11 January 1997 || 18 May 1998<br> ({{age in years and days|1997|1|11|1998|5|18}})
| data-sort-value="Meier" | Agnes Meier<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wirtrauern.de/traueranzeige/agnes-meier-1907|title=Gedenkseite von Agnes Meier|website=www.wirtrauern.de}}</ref>
|Wilhelm Lehnen
|align=center|M | align=center | F
| 30 May 1907
|108 &ndash; 109
| 19 May 2018
|22 July 1888 &ndash; 18 May 1998<br> 109 years, 300 days
| {{ayd | 30 May 1907 | 19 May 2018}}
|Hesse
| (unknown)
| North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
| 79
|18 May 1998 || 5 January 1999<br> ({{age in days|1998|5|18|1999|1|5}} days)
| data-sort-value="Berner" | Carl Berner<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|Marie Stegmann
|align=center|F | align=center | M
| 27 January 1902
|109
| 7 January 2013
|17 January 1889 &ndash; 6 January 1999<br> 109 years, 354 days
| 110 years, 346 days
|North Rhine-Westphalia
| Württemberg
| United States

|- |-
| 80
|5 January 1999 || 29 March 1999<br> ({{age in days|1999|1|5|1999|3|29}} days)
| data-sort-value="Tilscher" | Aloysia Tilscher<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|M | align=center | F
| 9 December 1893
|109 &ndash; 110
| 8 November 2004
|3 February 1889 &ndash; 29 March 1999<br> 110 years, 54 days
| 110 years, 335 days
|Bavaria
| ]{{efn|name=Moravia|Tilscher was born in ], then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.}}
| Bavaria

|- |-
| 81
|29 March 1999 || 9 February 2002<br> ({{age in years and days|1999|3|23|2002|2|9}})
| data-sort-value="Henke" | Hildegard Henke<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www1.wdr.de/studio/aachen/themadestages/aelteste-buergerin-geburtstag100.html |title= Monschauerin feiert 110. Geburtstag – Von der Kaiserzeit bis ins Internetzeitalter |language=de |trans-title=Monschau resident celebrates 110th birthday – From imperial times to the Internet age |publisher=]|date=27 September 2016 |access-date=24 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107012126/http://www1.wdr.de/studio/aachen/themadestages/aelteste-buergerin-geburtstag100.html |archive-date=7 November 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://aspetos.com/de/parten/nordrhein-westfalen/staedteregion-aachen/hildegard-henke-stryczek |title=Traueranzeige von Hildegard Henke |language=de |trans-title=Death notice of Hildegard Henke |work=Aspetos |date=27 September 2016 |access-date=24 February 2018}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 4 November 1905
|110 &ndash; 112
| 27 September 2016
|12 February 1889 &ndash; 9 February 2002<br> 112 years, 362 days
| {{ayd | 4 November 1905 | 27 September 2016}}
|Rhineland-Palatinate
| Rhineland
|- bgcolor="9BDDFF"
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|9 February 2002 || 10 September 2002<br> ({{age in days|2002|2|9|2002|9|10}} days)

|Rosalia Hasenkampf
|align=center|F
|112
|14 October 1889 &ndash; 10 September 2002<br> 112 years, 269 days
|North Rhine-Westphalia
|- |-
| 82
|10 September 2002 || 19 November 2002<br> ({{age in days|2002|9|10|2002|11|19}} days)
| data-sort-value="Schmidt" | Frieda Schmidt<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 15 December 1899
|110 &ndash; 111
| 6 November 2010
|5 March 1891 &ndash; 19 November 2002<br> 111 years, 259 days
| 110 years, 326 days
|Lower Saxony
| Brandenburg
| Brandenburg

|- |-
| 83
|19 November 2002 || 3 August 2003<br> ({{age in days|2002|11|19|2003|8|3}} days)
| data-sort-value="Zeisler" | Berta Zeisler<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 2 February 1900
|110 &ndash; 111
| 1 December 2010
|25 March 1892 &ndash; 3 August 2003<br> 111 years, 131 days
| 110 years, 302 days
|Bavaria
| Lorraine{{efn|name=Lorraine}}
| Rhineland-Palatinate

|- |-
| 84
|3 August 2003 || 28 August 2004<br> ({{age in years and days|2003|8|3|2004|8|28}})
| data-sort-value="Metreweli" | Gisela Metreweli<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 10 October 1893
|110 &ndash; 111
| 31 July 2004
|20 November 1892 &ndash; 28 August 2004<br> 111 years, 282 days
| 110 years, 295 days
|Baden-Württemberg
| Bavaria
| Bavaria

|- |-
| 85
|28 August 2004 || 2 March 2005<br> ({{age in days|2004|8|28|2005|3|2}} days)
| data-sort-value="Stutz" | Marie Stutz<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|M | align=center | F
| 22 October 1896
|111
| 11 August 2007
|27 May 1893 &ndash; 2 March 2005<br> 111 years, 279 days
| 110 years, 293 days
|North Rhine-Westphalia
| ]
| Bavaria

|- |-
| 86
|2 March 2005 || 21 July 2005<br> ({{age in days|2005|3|2|2005|7|21}} days)
| data-sort-value="Schneider, Gerhart" | Gerhart Schneider<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rundschau-online.de/region/kreis-euskirchen/bad-muenstereifel-archiv/mit-sachertorte-von-heino-gerhart-schneider-feiert-110--geburtstag-in-bad-muensteifel-29874976 |title=Mit Sachertorte von Heino: Gerhart Schneider feiert 110. Geburtstag in Bad Münsteifel |language=de |trans-title=With a chocolate cake from Heino, Gerhart Schneider celebrates his 110th birthday in Bad Münsteifel |work=] |first=Hanna |last=Bender |date=16 March 2018 |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | M
| 13 March 1908
|110
| 18 December 2018
|18 October 1894 &ndash; 21 July 2005<br> 110 years, 276 days
| 110 years, 280 days
|Brandenburg
| Silesia{{efn|Schneider was born in Habelschwerdt, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
| North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
| 87
|21 July 2005 || 5 October 2007<br> ({{age in years and days|2005|7|21|2007|10|5}})
| data-sort-value="Henningsen" | Erna Henningsen<ref name="GRG-Deceased"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 24 May 1889
|109 &ndash; 112
| 27 February 2000
|20 September 1895 &ndash; 5 October 2007<br> 112 years, 15 days
| 110 years, 279 days
|Berlin
| Prussian Saxony
| Berlin

|- |-
| 88
|5 October 2007 || 6 October 2007<br> ({{age in days|2007|10|5|2007|10|6}} day)
| data-sort-value="Mueller" | Frieda Müller<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 18 October 1894
|111
| 21 July 2005
|10 July 1896 &ndash; 6 October 2007<br> 111 years, 88 days
| 110 years, 276 days
|Schleswig-Holstein
| Brandenburg
|-bgcolor="FFB6B6"
| Brandenburg
|6 October 2007 || 22 June 2008<br> ({{age in days|2007|10|6|2008|6|22}} days)

|Frieda Borchert
|align=center|F
|110 &ndash; 111
|5 January 1897 &ndash; 22 June 2008<br> 111 years, 169 days
|Berlin
|- |-
| 89
|22 June 2008 || 8 November 2008<br> ({{age in days|2008|6|22|2008|11|8}} days)
| data-sort-value="Spyra" | Pauline Spyra<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Emma Joisten
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 24 April 1886
|110
| 11 January 1997
|21 June 1898 &ndash; 8 November 2008<br> 110 years, 140 days
| 110 years, 262 days
|North Rhine-Westphalia
| Silesia{{efn|Spyra was born in Wendzin, then in the German Empire, now ] in Poland.}}
| Bavaria

|- |-
| 90
|8 November 2008 || 27 December 2008<br> ({{age in days|2008|11|8|2008|12|27}} days)
| data-sort-value="Rau_F" | Felicitas Rau<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-nachruf-auf-die-aelteste-duesseldorferin-felicitas-rau_aid-24351897|title=Nachruf auf die älteste Bürgerin Düsseldorfs: Felicitas Rau wurde 110 Jahre alt|first=Helene|last=Pawlitzki|website=RP ONLINE|date=13 August 2018}}</ref>
|Elisabeth Schilling
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 11 December 1907
|109
| 8 August 2018
|3 September 1899 &ndash; 27 December 2008<br> 109 years, 115 days
| 110 years, 240 days
|Bavaria
| Hamburg
| North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
| 91
|27 December 2008 || 6 November 2010<br> ({{age in years and days|2008|12|27|2010|11|6}})
| data-sort-value="Doerk" | Helga Doerk<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iannounce-cdn.co.uk/static/1538825289/images/23/39/54253923_large.png|title=Dr. Helga Doerk}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 8 February 1908
|109 &ndash; 110
| 2 October 2018
|15 December 1899 &ndash; 6 November 2010<br> 110 years, 326 days
| 110 years, 237 days
|Brandenburg
| ], ]
| North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
| 92
|6 November 2010|| 1 December 2010<br> ({{age in days|2010|11|6|2010|12|1}} days)
| data-sort-value="Tessmer" | Frieda Tessmer<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 5 August 1897
|110
| 28 March 2008
|2 February 1900 &ndash; 1 December 2010<br> 110 years, 302 days
| 110 years, 236 days
|Rhineland-Palatinate
| Brandenburg
| Berlin

|- |-
| 93
|1 December 2010|| 2 May 2011<br> ({{age in days|2010|12|1|2011|5|2}} days)
| data-sort-value="Rey" | Clothilde Rey<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Charlotte Bauch
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 20 November 1892
|110
| 9 July 2003
|12 October 1900 &ndash; 2 May 2011<br> 110 years, 202 days
| 110 years, 231 days
|Bavaria
| Rhineland
| North Rhine-Westphalia

|- |-
| 94
|2 May 2011 || 21 November 2011<br>({{age in days|2011|5|2|2011|11|21}} days)
| data-sort-value="Scharfenberg" | Erna Scharfenberg<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|Karolina Gröber
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 26 June 1894
|110
| 26 January 2005
|27 April 1901 &ndash; 21 November 2011<br> 110 years, 208 days
| 110 years, 214 days
|Bavaria
| Hamburg
| Schleswig-Holstein

|- |-
| 95
|21 November 2011 || 9 February 2013<br>({{age in years and days|2011|11|21|2013|2|9}})
| data-sort-value="Beumer" | Wilhelmine Beumer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mv-online.de/lokales/rheine/wilhelmine-beumer-wird-110-jahre-325190.html |title=Wilhelmine Beumer wird 110 Jahre |website=MV online - Münsterländische Volkszeitung}}</ref>
|]
|align=center|F | align=center | F
| 10 April 1910
|110 &ndash; 111
| 9 November 2020<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.trauer.ms/traueranzeige/wilhelmine-beumer-2020-11-09-greven-9309393 |title=Traueranzeigen von Wilhelmine Beumer |website=Trauer}}</ref>
|19 August 1901 &ndash; 9 February 2013<br> 111 years, 174 days
| 110 years, 213 days
|Lower Saxony
| Hanover
|-bgcolor="99FF99"
| North Rhine-Westphalia
|9 February 2013 || Present<br>({{age in days|2013|2|9}} days)
|]
|align=center|F
|111 &ndash; 112*
|born 8 December 1901<br>age {{age in years and days|1901|12|8}}
|Living in Lower Saxony
|}


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==People==
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| data-sort-value="Stoellger" | Mathilde Stoellger<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
| align=center | F
| 21 April 1893
| 16 November 2003
| 110 years, 209 days
| Rhineland
| North Rhine-Westphalia


|-
===Ella Ille Rentel===
| 97
Ella Ille Rentel (19 May 1852 &ndash; 19 September 1962) was a German-Lithuanian ]. She held the record of the oldest person who died in Germany before ] surpassed her. The record for the oldest woman was broken by ]. She was born in Geldauschinken (]), relocated in 1941 to ] (], since 1945 ]), went in 1957 to ] and died in ].{{Fact|date=June 2011}}
| data-sort-value="Groeber" | Karolina Gröber<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
| align=center | F
| 27 April 1901
| 21 November 2011
| 110 years, 208 days
| Bavaria
| Bavaria


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| data-sort-value="Wedeking" | ]<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|before = Mathilda Müller |
| align=center | M
|title = ]
| 10 October 1862
|years = 7 January 1959 – 19 September 1962
| 5 May 1973
|after = Margarethe Zinndorf |
| 110 years, 207 days
}}
| ]
{{s-bef| before = Wilhelmus Kostering }}
| North Rhine-Westphalia
{{s-ttl| title = ]
| years = 9 December 1960 – 19 September 1962 }}
{{s-aft| rows = | after = Lovisa Svensson }}
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|-
===Katharina Braun===
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Katharina Braun (23 September 1867 &ndash; 5 February 1979) was a German ] and the record holder for the highest age of a person born and died in Germany. The record holder before her was ] - for females ]; her record was broken by ]. She was born and died in ].
| bgcolor=F9F9F9|99
| data-sort-value="Burghard" | Victorine Burghard<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/world-supercentenarian-rankings-list/ |title=World Supercentenarian Rankings List |publisher=grg-supercentenarians.org |access-date=18 January 2025}}</ref>
| align=center | F
| 28 June 1914
| Living
| {{ayd | 28 June 1914 }}
| Alsace{{efn|Burghard was born in ], then part of the German Empire, now ] in France.}}
| France


|-
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| 100
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| data-sort-value="Corba" | Maria Corba<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
|before = Margarethe Sauer |
| align=center | F
|title = Oldest recognized person in Germany
| 15 August 1878
|years = 14 January 1977 – 5 February 1979
| 8 March 1989
|after =Elvira Gabriele Sadde
| 110 years, 205 days
}}
| ]{{efn|Corba was born in Izgar, then in Austria-Hungary, now ] in ].}}
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| North Rhine-Westphalia
|before = Marie-Virginie Duhem |
|}
|title = ]
|years = 5 April 1978 – 5 February 1979
|after = Frederique Noël
}}
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== Biographies ==
===Paula Marie Baumgärtner===
=== Friedrich Wedeking ===
Paula Marie Baumgärtner (16 August 1881 &ndash; 24 February 1993) was a German ] and the record holder for the highest age of a person born and died in Germany. The record holder before her was ]. The record for the oldest person born in Germany was broken by ] and for the oldest which died in Germany by ]. She was born in ] and died in ].
Karl Friedrich Wedeking (10 October 1862 – 5 May 1973) was born in ], ], ], and died in ], ], aged 110 years, 207 days. He was one of the founding members of the city's gliders club in 1931.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kreis.aw-online.de/kvar/VT/hjb1974/hjb1974.41.htm|title=Einen guten Rotwein bis zum letzten Tag|website=www.kreis.aw-online.de|access-date=15 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222145311/http://www.kreis.aw-online.de/kvar/VT/hjb1974/hjb1974.41.htm|archive-date=22 February 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wedeking was the first supercentenarian recognized as the world's ] by '']''.<ref name="GRG-M-2018"/>


=== Maria Laqua ===
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Maria Laqua (12 February 1889 – 9 February 2002) was born in Rheydt-], 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 ]. Her husband Charles died in 1958. She lived for 35 years in a retirement home in ], 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article373633/Aelteste-Frau-Deutschlands-gestorben.html|title=Älteste Frau Deutschlands gestorben|date=12 February 2002}}</ref> She was the ] 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.<ref name="GRG-Historical"/>
{{s-bef| rows = 2 | before = Minna Splittgerber }}
{{s-ttl| title = Oldest recognized person born in Germany
| years = 19 May 1991 – 24 February 1993 }}
{{s-aft| after = Marguerite Petit }}
{{s-ttl| title = ]
| years = 19 May 1991 – 24 February 1993 }}
{{s-aft| after = Gertrud Pannwitz }}
{{s-end}}


===Adelheid Kirschbaum=== === 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 ] for about one year. After the death of 113-year-old American ] in November 2004, Dörnemann was believed to have become the world's oldest living man,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article118453/Man-darf-im-Leben-alles-nur-nicht-gruebeln.html|title=Man darf im Leben alles, nur nicht grübeln|first=Heike|last=Vowinkel|date=20 November 2004|access-date=5 December 2018|via=www.welt.de|newspaper=Die Welt}}</ref> but ] from Puerto Rico was later confirmed to be almost two years older. Dörnemann credited his longevity to "drinking a beer a day".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stern.de/panorama/gesellschaft/hermann-doernemann-ein-leben-in-drei-jahrhunderten-3555102.html|title=Ein Leben in drei Jahrhunderten|date=4 March 2005|website=stern.de|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/turning-111-on-a-beer-a-day/a-1219106|title=Turning 111 on a Beer a Day - DW - 10.08.2004|website=DW.COM|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref> He died of pneumonia in ], aged 111 years, 279 days.
Adelheid Kirschbaum (29 September 1883 – 21 December 1996) was the ] born in Germany ever before ]; before her ] was the record holder. She was born in ] and died in ]. Kirschbaum also was the oldest ] person ever before ].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4484:worlds-oldest-living-jew-dies-at-113&catid=106:international&Itemid=289 |title=World’s Oldest Living Jew Dies at 113 |date=19 June 2013 }}</ref>


=== Elisabeth Schneider ===
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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 ], 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 ], Lower Saxony. She was survived by her daughter, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nwzonline.de/kultur/weser-ems/varelerin-hat-mit-110-jahren-stets-ein-gedicht-parat_a_1,0,592510076.html|title=Varelerin hat mit 110 Jahren stets ein Gedicht parat|date=19 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nwzonline.de/friesland/wirtschaft/aelteste-einwohnerin-mit-111-jahren-gestorben-aelteste-einwohnerin-mit-111-jahren-gestorben_a_3,0,2753168914.html|title= Älteste Einwohnerin mit 111 Jahren gestorben|date=11 March 2013}}</ref>
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|before = Marguerite Petit
|title = Oldest recognized person born in Germany
|years = 24 February 1993 – 21 December 1996
|after = ]
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===Maria Laqua=== === 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 ], 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 ] 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abendblatt.de/region/niedersachsen/article111880071/Gertrud-Henze-feiert-111-Geburtstag.html|title=Gertrud Henze feiert 111. Geburtstag|date=7 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hna.de/lokales/goettingen/morgen-wird-112-goettingerin-gertrud-henze-aelteste-deutsche-3260687.html|title=Sonntag wird sie 112: Göttingerin Gertrud Henze ist die älteste Deutsche|date=7 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.mit-112-jahren-gestorben-gertrud-henze-war-wohl-aelteste-deutsche.a687412d-33ab-44e7-bb36-db9728389a7f.html|title= Gertrud Henze war wohl älteste Deutsche|date=22 April 2014}}</ref>


=== Frieda Szwillus ===
] who is actually the ] ever to be born and die in Germany. Only three German emigrant supercentenarians - Augusta Holtz, Charlotte Benkner and Adelheid Kirschbaum - became older. Laqua was also the first German supercentenarian to live in three centuries.
Frieda Szwillus (née Hennig; 30 March 1902 – 21 September 2014<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.freiepresse.de/NACHRICHTEN/TOP-THEMA/Aelteste-Frau-Deutschlands-tot-Erzgebirgerin-wurde-112-Jahre-alt-artikel8986238.php|title=Älteste Frau Deutschlands tot: Erzgebirgerin wurde 112 Jahre alt|date=24 September 2014}}</ref>) 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 ] (now in Saxony-Anhalt), and had six siblings. Her family moved to ] 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 ] with her family, and she needed no medicine. She was in good physical condition, but suffered from ]. 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.freiepresse.de/NACHRICHTEN/TOP-THEMA/Oma-Frieda-braucht-ihren-Trubel-artikel7625450.php|title=Oma Frieda braucht ihren Trubel|date=30 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.freiepresse.de/NACHRICHTEN/SACHSEN/Sachsens-aeltester-Mensch-wird-heute-110-Jahre-alt-artikel7947668.php|title=Sachsens ältester Mensch wird heute 110 Jahre alt|date=30 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.freiepresse.de/NACHRICHTEN/SACHSEN/Sachsens-aelteste-Buergerin-wird-morgen-112-Jahre-alt-artikel8761240.php|title=Sachsens älteste Bürgerin wird morgen 112 Jahre alt|date=29 March 2014}}</ref>


=== Gustav Gerneth ===
Maria Laqua was born in 1889 in Reydt-], Bavaria as one of 13 children. She worked as housemaid, married and gave birth to two children in the 1920s. Her husband Charles died in 1958. Their both sons fell in the Second World War.
Gustav Gerneth (15 October 1905 &ndash; 21 October 2019)<ref name="Gerneth-death"/> was born in ], ] (now Szczecin, Poland).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wn.de/Welt/Vermischtes/3021588-Gustav-Gerneth-Deutschlands-wohl-aeltester-Mann-feiert-112.-Geburtstag|title=Deutschlands wohl ältester Mann feiert 112. Geburtstag|work=wn.de}} 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017</ref> 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 ('']'').<ref>{{cite web |title=5 Of The World's Oldest WWII Vets Share Their Secrets To Long Life |url=https://worldwarwings.com/5-of-the-worlds-oldest-wwii-vets-share-their-secrets-to-long-life/ |website=worldwarwings |access-date=7 August 2022}}</ref> He married Charlotte Grubert in 1930 and the couple had three sons; she died in 1988. Gerneth lived in ] in ] for over forty years, and continued to do so on his own, with family members caring for his household.<ref name="Welt"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/sachsen_anhalt/1358073_Herr-Gerneth-steht-mit-109-noch-am-Herd.html |title=Herr Gerneth steht mit 109 noch am Herd |first=Andrea |last=Schröder |newspaper=] |date=16 October 2014 |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref> According to a statement by his granddaughter on his 113th birthday, he still had a lucid mind, watching football, solving crosswords, and doing ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/havelberg/jubilaeum-aeltester-deutscher-feiert-113-geburtstag |title= Ältester Deutscher feiert 113. Geburtstag |first=Andrea |last=Schröder |newspaper=] |date=15 October 2018 |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news |first=Andrea |last=Schröder |url=https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/havelberg/111-geburtstag-aeltester-deutscher-ist-ein-havelberger |title=Ältester Deutscher ist ein Havelberger |newspaper=] |date=15 October 2016 |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref> Gerneth died on 21 October 2019 of natural causes, aged 114 years and 6 days, believed to have been the ],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/Mit-114-Gustav-Gerneth-stirbt-eine-Woche-nach-seinem-Geburtstag-id55790136.html |title=Ältester Mann der Welt – Mit 114: Gustav Gerneth stirbt eine Woche nach seinem Geburtstag |language=de |trans-title=Oldest man in the world – At 114, Gustav Gerneth dies one week after his birthday |newspaper=] |first=Daniel |last=Flemm |date=23 October 2019 |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref> although '']'' has not verified his case.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/21/worlds-oldest-man-dies-japan-aged-113/|title=World's oldest man dies in Japan, aged 113|newspaper=Telegraph|date=21 January 2019|last1=Demetriou|first1=Danielle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/113-jahre-aeltester-mann-der-welt-tot---nachfolger-kommt-wohl-aus-sachsen-anhalt-31906304|title=Gustav Gerneth aus Sachsen-Anhalt ist ältester Mann der Welt|language=de|trans-title=Gustav Gerneth from Saxony-Anhalt is the oldest man in the world |website=Berliner Zeitung|date=20 January 2019}}</ref>
Laqua lived for 35 years in a retirement home in ], Rhineland-Palatinate and passed away in her sleep, three days shy from turning 113. She was only survived by a great-niece who attended her regularly. It was reported that Laqua was in need of care, bedridden and not accessible during her last years. Nevertheless there were also good days when Maria Laqua had suddenly a flash and spoke. During a visit of a bishop for example, she had spoken at once and told a lot.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article373633/Aelteste-Frau-Deutschlands-gestorben.html|title=Älteste Frau Deutschlands gestorben|date=12 February 2002}}</ref>


=== Josefine Ollmann ===
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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 ]'s claimed final age is older than Ollmann, his age is officially still unvalidated.
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|title = ]
|years = 29 March 1999 – 9 February 2002
|after = ]
}}
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===Anna Stephan=== == Notes ==
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== References ==
Anna Stephan (25 March 1892 – 3 August 2003) was a German supercentenarian who was born in Altenteich, Bohemia as one of 12 children. Stephan married two times and gave birth to four daughters. In 1945, the Sudeten German family was evicted from their home. With 50 kilogram of luggage, Anna Stephan fled with her husband and children to ], Germany. After the Second World War, she went every day into the forest to gather wood and she also knitted and patched farmer’s clothes so that her family got something to eat. Anna Stephan lived on her own until the age of 106 and died in a retirement home in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz nearly 5 months after her 111th birthday. She was outlived by three daughters, nine grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.<ref>{{cite news |url=hhttp://www.rp-online.de/panorama/111-jahre-anna-stephan-ist-die-aelteste-deutsche-aid-1.2077738|title=111 Jahre: Anna Stephan ist die älteste Deutsche|date=25 March 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/deutschland/aelteste-deutsche-stirbt-mit-111-jahren-aid-1.2073630|title= Älteste Deutsche stirbt mit 111 Jahren|date=4 August 2003}}</ref>
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<ref name="Welt">{{cite news |url=https://www.welt.de/regionales/sachsen-anhalt/article182125006/Deutschlands-wohl-aeltester-Mann-113-Jahre-alt-geworden.html |title=Deutschlands wohl ältester Mann 113 Jahre alt geworden |language=de |trans-title=Germany's oldest man turned 113 |newspaper=] |date=15 October 2018 |access-date=15 October 2018}}</ref>
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===Frieda Schmidt===
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Frieda Schmidt (15 December 1899 &ndash; 6 November 2010) was a ] supercentenarian and the oldest verified person in Germany.

Schmidt was born in Bergsdorf and died there. During her life she lost her only husband in 1951 and also two daughters, but there is still a sister living in Berlin, eight grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandchild at the time of her death.<ref name="Märkische Allgemeine, 16.12.2009">http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/11683984/61129/Die-Bergsdorferin-Frieda-Schmidt-laesst-sich-an-ihrem.html</ref>

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===Elisabeth Schneider===
Elisabeth Schneider (August 19, 1901 – February 9, 2013) was a German ] who was the oldest person in Germany until her death on February 9, 2013 at the age of 111 years and 174 days. She was born in ], North Rhine-Westphalia, in 1901 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 against the backdrop of being Germanys oldest living supercentenarian: Laughing, she claimed that others just would have given up gasping for breath. On February 9, 2013, she died in a retirement home in ], Lower Saxony. Schneider was outlived by her daughter, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nwzonline.de/kultur/weser-ems/varelerin-hat-mit-110-jahren-stets-ein-gedicht-parat_a_1,0,592510076.html|title=Varelerin hat mit 110 Jahren stets ein Gedicht parat|date=19 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nwzonline.de/friesland/wirtschaft/aelteste-einwohnerin-mit-111-jahren-gestorben-aelteste-einwohnerin-mit-111-jahren-gestorben_a_3,0,2753168914.html|title= Älteste Einwohnerin mit 111 Jahren gestorben|date=11 March 2013}}</ref>

===Gertrud Henze===
Gertrud Henze (born December 8, 1901) is a German ] who has been the oldest living person in Germany since the death of ] on February 9, 2013. The former librarian was born on Rügen and never got married or gave birth to a child. Nowadays she is still in good condition and lives in a retirement home in ] where she is well-liked by many residents for her open and life-affirming attitude. Henze traces her longevity to reading a lot, having lively contact with other people, enjoying sometimes a cigarette and a glass of wine and never marry. She celebrated her 112th birthday only with some friends and relatives because the public interest in consequence of her birthday the year before was too exhausting.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abendblatt.de/region/niedersachsen/article111880071/Gertrud-Henze-feiert-111-Geburtstag.html|title=Gerrud Henze feiert 111. Geburtstag|date=7 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hna.de/lokales/goettingen/morgen-wird-112-goettingerin-gertrud-henze-aelteste-deutsche-3260687.html|title=Sonntag wird sie 112: Göttingerin Gertrud Henze ist die älteste Deutsche|date=7 December 2013}}</ref>

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People from Germany who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years

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, 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. The oldest known German alive is Ilse Meingast, born on 14 March 1912, aged 112 years, 315 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.

100 oldest Germans

  Deceased   Living

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age Birthplace Place of death
or residence
01 Augusta Holtz F 3 August 1871 21 October 1986 115 years, 79 days Posen United States
02 Charlotte Kretschmann F 3 December 1909 27 August 2024 114 years, 268 days Silesia Baden-Württemberg
03 Charlotte Benkner F 16 November 1889 14 May 2004 114 years, 180 days Saxony United States
04 Gustav Gerneth M 15 October 1905 21 October 2019 114 years, 6 days Pomerania Saxony-Anhalt
05 Josefine Ollmann F 11 November 1908 16 July 2022 113 years, 247 days Bavaria Schleswig-Holstein
06 Luzia Mohrs F 23 March 1904 16 October 2017 113 years, 207 days Rhineland Brazil
07 Louise Schaaf F 16 October 1906 25 April 2020 113 years, 192 days Baden United States
08 Erna Brosig F 15 January 1911 23 July 2024 113 years, 190 days Silesia Lower Saxony
09 Mary Drymalski F 22 July 1880 1 December 1993 113 years, 132 days West Prussia United States
10 Maria Aulenbacher F 7 November 1909 8 February 2023 113 years, 93 days Hesse-Nassau United States
11 Adelheid Kirschbaum F 29 September 1883 21 December 1996 113 years, 83 days Rhineland United States
12 Mathilde Mange F 10 August 1906 28 October 2019 113 years, 79 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
13 Anna Cernohorsky F 13 September 1909 18 September 2022 113 years, 5 days Bohemia Saxony
14 Maria Laqua F 12 February 1889 9 February 2002 112 years, 362 days Rhineland Rhineland-Palatinate
15 Rosa Rein F 24 March 1897 14 February 2010 112 years, 327 days Silesia Switzerland
16 Ilse Meingast F 14 March 1912 Living 112 years, 315 days Brandenburg United States
17 Anna Bechler F 28 September 1907 29 July 2020 112 years, 305 days Bavaria United States
18 Rosalia Hasenkampf F 14 October 1889 10 July 2002 112 years, 269 days Russia North Rhine-Westphalia
19 Gertruda Gorecka F 12 November 1911 25 June 2024 112 years, 226 days West Prussia Canada
20 Lydia Smuda F 6 November 1906 6 June 2019 112 years, 212 days Rhineland Hamburg
21 Frieda Szwillus F 30 March 1902 21 September 2014 112 years, 175 days Anhalt Saxony
22 Marguerite Petit F 5 July 1883 21 December 1995 112 years, 171 days Lorraine France
23 Babette Endres F 1 August 1910 12 January 2023 112 years, 164 days Bavaria Baden-Württemberg
24 Berta Rosenberg F 5 September 1896 28 January 2009 112 years, 145 days Hesse-Nassau United States
25 Gertrud Henze F 8 December 1901 22 April 2014 112 years, 135 days Pomerania Lower Saxony
26 Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff F 7 December 1905 9 April 2018 112 years, 123 days Reuss-Gera Baden-Württemberg
27 Therese Fenners F 8 March 1906 23 June 2018 112 years, 107 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
28 Elisabeth Tränkner F 11 August 1906 7 November 2018 112 years, 88 days Hesse-Nassau Baden-Württemberg
29 Meta Berndt F 9 November 1889 28 December 2001 112 years, 49 days Pomerania North Rhine-Westphalia
30 Johanna Klink F 17 January 1903 20 February 2015 112 years, 34 days Silesia Saxony
31 Irmgard von Stephani F 20 September 1895 5 October 2007 112 years, 15 days Hesse-Nassau Berlin
32 Hildegard 'Hilda' Rau F 31 July 1912 29 July 2024 111 years, 364 days Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
33 Katherine Bodenbender F 19 April 1905 16 April 2017 111 years, 362 days Hesse-Nassau United States
34 Katharina Hagemeyer F 4 August 1908 12 July 2020 111 years, 343 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
35 Adele Rodenstein F 3 September 1908 18 July 2020 111 years, 319 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
36 Ida Schorn F 4 May 1864 8 March 1976 111 years, 309 days Pomerania United States
37 Anna Küpper F 29 December 1908 18 October 2020 111 years, 294 days Rhineland Rhineland-Palatinate
38 Lina Zimmer F 20 November 1892 28 August 2004 111 years, 282 days Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
39 Hermann Dörnemann M 27 May 1893 2 March 2005 111 years, 279 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
40 Helen Johnson F 20 July 1896 17 April 2008 111 years, 272 days Brandenburg United States
41 Charlotte Klamroth F 18 August 1903 16 May 2015 111 years, 271 days Prussian Saxony Rhineland-Palatinate
42 Magdalene Regener F 5 March 1891 19 November 2002 111 years, 259 days Hesse-Nassau Lower Saxony
43 Pauline Raißle F 16 December 1905 29 August 2017 111 years, 256 days Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
44 Catherine Trompeter F 26 March 1895 18 November 2006 111 years, 237 days Alsace France
45 Elisabeth Heck F 11 July 1893 3 February 2005 111 years, 207 days Baden Hesse
46 Adele Lankenau F 27 March 1913 6 October 2024 111 years, 193 days Hanover Lower Saxony
47 Paula Baumgärtner F 16 August 1881 24 February 1993 111 years, 192 days Westphalia Baden-Württemberg
48 Adele Ziegenhagel F 12 July 1906 10 January 2018 111 years, 182 days (unknown) Rhineland-Palatinate
49 Margarete Ottmann F 23 February 1903 17 August 2014 111 years, 175 days Silesia Bavaria
Ilse Beck F 5 October 1906 29 March 2018 Saxony Thuringia
51 Elisabeth Schneider F 19 August 1901 9 February 2013 111 years, 174 days Westphalia Lower Saxony
52 Frieda Borchert F 5 January 1897 22 June 2008 111 years, 169 days Pomerania Berlin
53 Anna Mehlberg F 2 December 1906 16 May 2018 111 years, 165 days Brandenburg Berlin
54 Rosa Rose F 4 December 1903 25 April 2015 111 years, 142 days Hanover Lower Saxony
55 Ida Enthof F 7 September 1913 Living 111 years, 138 days East Prussia Lower Saxony
56 Karolina Krüger F 17 February 1885 3 July 1996 111 years, 137 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
57 Katharina Braun F 23 September 1867 5 February 1979 111 years, 135 days Bavaria (Palatinate) Rhineland-Palatinate
58 Anna Stephan F 25 March 1892 3 August 2003 111 years, 131 days Bohemia Bavaria
59 Friedrich Reichenstein M 1 February 1906 9 June 2017 111 years, 128 days Westphalia Israel
60 Maria-Anna Higelin F 18 November 1882 21 March 1994 111 years, 123 days Alsace France
61 Anna Braun F 5 July 1911 29 October 2022 111 years, 116 days (unknown) Brandenburg
62 Gertrud Teichgräber F 22 November 1908 16 March 2020 111 years, 115 days Brandenburg Lower Saxony
63 Anne Matthiesen (née Jensen) F 26 November 1884 19 March 1996 111 years, 114 days Schleswig-Holstein Denmark
64 Gertrud Blohm F 7 September 1912 29 December 2023 111 years, 113 days Mecklenburg-Schwerin Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
65 Maria Gabriella Lerchenthal F 8 June 1913 13 September 2024 111 years, 97 days Bavaria Italy
66 Elsa Tauser F 10 July 1896 6 October 2007 111 years, 88 days Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
67 Bertha Lindemann F 11 March 1891 29 May 2002 111 years, 79 days Brunswick Lower Saxony
68 Johanna Frank F 15 September 1875 24 November 1986 111 years, 70 days Hamburg United States
69 Käthe 'Katie' Logemann F 15 December 1907 19 February 2019 111 years, 66 days Oldenburg United States
70 Zhenya Broytman F 21 August 1899 25 October 2010 111 years, 65 days Ukraine North Rhine-Westphalia
71 Emilie Kreckmann F 28 October 1912 18 December 2023 111 years, 51 days Bavaria Saarland
72 Elisabeth Schlink F 3 December 1910 24 December 2021 111 years, 21 days West Prussia Schleswig-Holstein
73 Feuke Glato F 26 December 1908 31 December 2019 111 years, 5 days Hanover Lower Saxony
74 Else Aßmann F 18 February 1902 15 February 2013 110 years, 363 days Brandenburg Berlin
75 Dorothea Duisberg F 7 October 1912 2 October 2023 110 years, 360 days Bremen Chile
76 Johann Schornack M 29 February 1912 22 February 2023 110 years, 359 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
77 Anna 'Änne' Matschewsky F 3 October 1912 23 September 2023 110 years, 355 days Rhineland Baden-Württemberg
78 Agnes Meier F 30 May 1907 19 May 2018 110 years, 354 days (unknown) North Rhine-Westphalia
79 Carl Berner M 27 January 1902 7 January 2013 110 years, 346 days Württemberg United States
80 Aloysia Tilscher F 9 December 1893 8 November 2004 110 years, 335 days Moravia Bavaria
81 Hildegard Henke F 4 November 1905 27 September 2016 110 years, 328 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
82 Frieda Schmidt F 15 December 1899 6 November 2010 110 years, 326 days Brandenburg Brandenburg
83 Berta Zeisler F 2 February 1900 1 December 2010 110 years, 302 days Lorraine Rhineland-Palatinate
84 Gisela Metreweli F 10 October 1893 31 July 2004 110 years, 295 days Bavaria Bavaria
85 Marie Stutz F 22 October 1896 11 August 2007 110 years, 293 days Hesse Bavaria
86 Gerhart Schneider M 13 March 1908 18 December 2018 110 years, 280 days Silesia North Rhine-Westphalia
87 Erna Henningsen F 24 May 1889 27 February 2000 110 years, 279 days Prussian Saxony Berlin
88 Frieda Müller F 18 October 1894 21 July 2005 110 years, 276 days Brandenburg Brandenburg
89 Pauline Spyra F 24 April 1886 11 January 1997 110 years, 262 days Silesia Bavaria
90 Felicitas Rau F 11 December 1907 8 August 2018 110 years, 240 days Hamburg North Rhine-Westphalia
91 Helga Doerk F 8 February 1908 2 October 2018 110 years, 237 days Carinthia, Austria North Rhine-Westphalia
92 Frieda Tessmer F 5 August 1897 28 March 2008 110 years, 236 days Brandenburg Berlin
93 Clothilde Rey F 20 November 1892 9 July 2003 110 years, 231 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
94 Erna Scharfenberg F 26 June 1894 26 January 2005 110 years, 214 days Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
95 Wilhelmine Beumer F 10 April 1910 9 November 2020 110 years, 213 days Hanover North Rhine-Westphalia
96 Mathilde Stoellger F 21 April 1893 16 November 2003 110 years, 209 days Rhineland North Rhine-Westphalia
97 Karolina Gröber F 27 April 1901 21 November 2011 110 years, 208 days Bavaria Bavaria
98 Friedrich Wedeking M 10 October 1862 5 May 1973 110 years, 207 days Lippe North Rhine-Westphalia
99 Victorine Burghard F 28 June 1914 Living 110 years, 209 days Alsace France
100 Maria Corba F 15 August 1878 8 March 1989 110 years, 205 days Banat North Rhine-Westphalia

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

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. 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.

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, 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 (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.

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.

Frieda Szwillus

Frieda Szwillus (née Hennig; 30 March 1902 – 21 September 2014) 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.

Gustav Gerneth

Gustav Gerneth (15 October 1905 – 21 October 2019) was born in Stettin, German Empire (now Szczecin, Poland). 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. 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 21 October 2019 of natural causes, aged 114 years and 6 days, believed to have been the world's oldest man, although Guinness World Records has not verified his case.

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. Drymalski was born in Culm, then in the German Empire, now Chełmno in Poland.
  6. Cernohorsky was born in Molschen, Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now Malešov in the Czech Republic.
  7. Rein was born in Myslowitz, then in the German Empire, now Mysłowice in Poland.
  8. Hasenkampf was born in Glarus in the Saratov Oblast, then in the Russian Empire.
  9. Gorecka was born in Kamlau, then in the German Empire, now Kębłowo in Poland.
  10. ^ Petit and Zeisler were born in Lorraine, then part of the German Empire, now in France.
  11. Berndt was born in Kaffzig, then in the German Empire, now Kawcze in Poland.
  12. Klink was born in Siemianowitz, then in the German Empire, now Siemianowice in Poland.
  13. 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.
  14. Schorn was born in Ratzebuhr, then part of Prussia in the German Confederation, now Okonek in Poland.
  15. Trompeter was born in Alsace, then part of the German Empire, now in France.
  16. Ottmann was born in Bauerwitz, then in the German Empire, now Baborów in Poland.
  17. Borchert was born in Gusscht, then in the German Empire, now in Poland.
  18. Enthof was born in Königsgut, then in East Prussia, now Królikowo in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
  19. Stephan was born in Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.
  20. Higelin was born in Didenheim, then part of the German Empire, now located in France.
  21. Matthiesen was born in Hadersleben (now Haderslev), in the Northern Schleswig region, then part of Prussia, which was reunited with Denmark in 1920. She died in the same region.
  22. Broytman was born in Kharkiv, then in the Russian Empire, now part of Ukraine.
  23. Schlink was born near Schwetz, then in the German Empire, now Świecie in Poland.
  24. Tilscher was born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.
  25. Schneider was born in Habelschwerdt, then in the German Empire, now Bystrzyca Kłodzka in Poland.
  26. Spyra was born in Wendzin, then in the German Empire, now Wędzina in Poland.
  27. Burghard was born in Lower Alsace, then part of the German Empire, now Bas-Rhin in France.
  28. Corba was born in Izgar, then in Austria-Hungary, now Vermeș in Romania.

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