# List of German supercentenarians

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, 363 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 | Ilse Meingast | F | 14 March 1912 | Living | 112 years, 363 days | Brandenburg | United States |
| 13 | Maria Laqua | F | 12 February 1889 | 9 February 2002 | 112 years, 362 days | Rhineland | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 16 | Rosa Rein | F | 24 March 1897 | 14 February 2010 | 112 years, 327 days | Silesia | Switzerland |
| 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 | Hildegard Lange | F | 12 January 1907 | 8 September 2019 | 112 years, 239 days | East Prussia | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 20 | Gertruda Gorecka | F | 12 November 1911 | 25 June 2024 | 112 years, 226 days | West Prussia | Canada |
| 21 | Lydia Smuda | F | 6 November 1906 | 6 June 2019 | 112 years, 212 days | Rhineland | Hamburg |
| 22 | Frieda Szwillus | F | 30 March 1902 | 21 September 2014 | 112 years, 175 days | Anhalt | Saxony |
| 23 | Marguerite Petit | F | 5 July 1883 | 21 December 1995 | 112 years, 171 days | Lorraine | France |
| 24 | Babette Endres | F | 1 August 1910 | 12 January 2023 | 112 years, 164 days | Bavaria | Baden-Württemberg |
| 25 | Berta Rosenberg | F | 5 September 1896 | 28 January 2009 | 112 years, 145 days | Hesse-Nassau | United States |
| 26 | Martha Rein | F | 17 August 1874 | 6 January 1987 | 112 years, 142 days | Bavaria | United States |
| 27 | Gertrud Henze | F | 8 December 1901 | 22 April 2014 | 112 years, 135 days | Pomerania | Lower Saxony |
| 28 | Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff | F | 7 December 1905 | 9 April 2018 | 112 years, 123 days | Reuss-Gera | Baden-Württemberg |
| 29 | Therese Fenners | F | 8 March 1906 | 23 June 2018 | 112 years, 107 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 30 | Elisabeth Tränkner | F | 11 August 1906 | 7 November 2018 | 112 years, 88 days | Hesse-Nassau | Baden-Württemberg |
| 31 | Meta Berndt | F | 9 November 1889 | 28 December 2001 | 112 years, 49 days | Pomerania | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 32 | Ottilie Reimers | F | 30 January 1913 | Living | 112 years, 41 days | Hamburg | Schleswig-Holstein |
| 33 | Johanna Klink | F | 17 January 1903 | 20 February 2015 | 112 years, 34 days | Silesia | Saxony |
| 34 | Irmgard von Stephani | F | 20 September 1895 | 5 October 2007 | 112 years, 15 days | Hesse-Nassau | Berlin |
| 35 | Hildegard 'Hilda' Rau | F | 31 July 1912 | 29 July 2024 | 111 years, 364 days | Württemberg | Baden-Württemberg |
| 36 | Katherine Bodenbender | F | 19 April 1905 | 16 April 2017 | 111 years, 362 days | Hesse-Nassau | United States |
| 37 | Anna Styś | F | 24 July 1908 | 1 July 2020 | 111 years, 343 days | West Prussia | Poland |
| 37 | Katharina Hagemeyer | F | 4 August 1908 | 12 July 2020 | 111 years, 343 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 39 | Amy 'Amelia' Holmes | F | 10 April 1886 | 1 March 1998 | 111 years, 325 days | Westphalia | United States |
| 40 | Adele Rodenstein | F | 3 September 1908 | 18 July 2020 | 111 years, 319 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 41 | Ida Schorn | F | 4 May 1864 | 8 March 1976 | 111 years, 309 days | Pomerania | United States |
| 42 | Anna Eistermeier | F | 28 September 1910 | 30 July 2022 | 111 years, 305 days | Bavaria | Bavaria |
| 43 | Ella Neumann | F | 9 October 1906 | 7 August 2018 | 111 years, 302 days | Baden | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 44 | Anna Küpper | F | 29 December 1908 | 18 October 2020 | 111 years, 294 days | Rhineland | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 45 | Elsa Peck | F | 20 April 1902 | 28 January 2014 | 111 years, 283 days | Hanover | Lower Saxony |
| 46 | Lina Zimmer | F | 20 November 1892 | 28 August 2004 | 111 years, 282 days | Württemberg | Baden-Württemberg |
| 47 | Hermann Dörnemann | M | 27 May 1893 | 2 March 2005 | 111 years, 279 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 48 | Helen Johnson | F | 20 July 1896 | 17 April 2008 | 111 years, 272 days | Brandenburg | United States |
| 49 | Charlotte Klamroth | F | 18 August 1903 | 16 May 2015 | 111 years, 271 days | Prussian Saxony | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 50 | Magdalene Regener | F | 5 March 1891 | 19 November 2002 | 111 years, 259 days | Hesse-Nassau | Lower Saxony |
| 51 | Pauline Raißle | F | 16 December 1905 | 29 August 2017 | 111 years, 256 days | Württemberg | Baden-Württemberg |
| 52 | Margot Petzold | F | 14 January 1911 | 20 September 2022 | 111 years, 249 days | (unknown) | Thuringia |
| 53 | Gertrud Grutza | F | 19 December 1908 | 15 August 2020 | 111 years, 240 days | (unknown) | Lower Saxony |
| 54 | Catherine Trompeter | F | 26 March 1895 | 18 November 2006 | 111 years, 237 days | Alsace | France |
| 55 | Elisabeth Heck | F | 11 July 1893 | 3 February 2005 | 111 years, 207 days | Baden | Hesse |
| 56 | Else Rönsch | F | 14 March 1904 | 5 October 2015 | 111 years, 205 days | Pomerania | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| 57 | Joanna Lipińska | F | 18 August 1910 | 6 March 2022 | 111 years, 200 days | Posen | Poland |
| 58 | Hedy Wegier | F | 25 October 1903 | 12 May 2015 | 111 years, 199 days | Silesia | United States |
| 59 | Adele Lankenau | F | 27 March 1913 | 6 October 2024 | 111 years, 193 days | Hanover | Lower Saxony |
| 60 | Paula Baumgärtner | F | 16 August 1881 | 24 February 1993 | 111 years, 192 days | Westphalia | Baden-Württemberg |
| 61 | Hélène Le Bozec | F | 24 December 1908 | 27 June 2020 | 111 years, 186 days | Alsace | France |
| 62 | Adele Ziegenhagel | F | 12 July 1906 | 10 January 2018 | 111 years, 182 days | (unknown) | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 63 | Margarete Ottmann | F | 23 February 1903 | 17 August 2014 | 111 years, 175 days | Silesia | Bavaria |
| 63 | Ilse Beck | F | 5 October 1906 | 29 March 2018 | 111 years, 175 days | Saxony | Thuringia |
| 65 | Elisabeth Schneider | F | 19 August 1901 | 9 February 2013 | 111 years, 174 days | Westphalia | Lower Saxony |
| 66 | Frieda Borchert | F | 5 January 1897 | 22 June 2008 | 111 years, 169 days | Pomerania | Berlin |
| 67 | Christine Hoscheid | F | 16 February 1907 | 1 August 2018 | 111 years, 166 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 68 | Anna Mehlberg | F | 2 December 1906 | 15 May 2018 | 111 years, 164 days | Brandenburg | Berlin |
| 69 | Margarete Dannheimer | F | 28 January 1904 | 2 July 2015 | 111 years, 155 days | Bavaria | Bavaria |
| 70 | Jeanne Schneider | F | 11 July 1895 | 11 December 2006 | 111 years, 153 days | Lorraine | France |
| 71 | Józefa Ciesielska | F | 6 March 1912 | 3 August 2023 | 111 years, 150 days | Posen | Poland |
| 72 | Rosa Rose | F | 4 December 1903 | 25 April 2015 | 111 years, 142 days | Hanover | Lower Saxony |
| 73 | Karolina Krüger | F | 17 February 1885 | 3 July 1996 | 111 years, 137 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 74 | Katharina Braun | F | 23 September 1867 | 5 February 1979 | 111 years, 135 days | Bavaria (Palatinate) | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 75 | Anna Stephan | F | 25 March 1892 | 3 August 2003 | 111 years, 131 days | Bohemia | Bavaria |
| 76 | Friedrich Reichenstein | M | 1 February 1906 | 9 June 2017 | 111 years, 128 days | Westphalia | Israel |
| 77 | Maria-Anna Higelin | F | 18 November 1882 | 21 March 1994 | 111 years, 123 days | Alsace | France |
| 78 | Anna Braun | F | 5 July 1911 | 29 October 2022 | 111 years, 116 days | (unknown) | Brandenburg |
| 79 | Gertrud Teichgräber | F | 22 November 1908 | 16 March 2020 | 111 years, 115 days | Brandenburg | Lower Saxony |
| 80 | Anne Matthiesen (née Jensen) | F | 26 November 1884 | 19 March 1996 | 111 years, 114 days | Schleswig-Holstein | Denmark |
| 81 | Gertrud Blohm | F | 7 September 1912 | 29 December 2023 | 111 years, 113 days | Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| 82 | Maria Gabriella Lerchenthal | F | 8 June 1913 | 13 September 2024 | 111 years, 97 days | Bavaria | Italy |
| 83 | Elsa Tauser | F | 10 July 1896 | 6 October 2007 | 111 years, 88 days | Hamburg | Schleswig-Holstein |
| 83 | Käthe Wulf | F | 23 March 1902 | 19 June 2013 | 111 years, 88 days | Oldenburg | Hesse |
| 85 | Bertha Lindemann | F | 11 March 1891 | 29 May 2002 | 111 years, 79 days | Brunswick | Lower Saxony |
| 85 | Eleonora Łosiewicz | F | 24 January 1910 | 13 April 2021 | 111 years, 79 days | Posen | Poland |
| 87 | Johanna Frank | F | 15 September 1875 | 24 November 1986 | 111 years, 70 days | Hamburg | United States |
| 88 | Ingeborg Fründt | F | 24 April 1913 | 1 July 2024 | 111 years, 68 days | Hanover | Lower Saxony |
| 89 | Käthe 'Katie' Logemann | F | 15 December 1907 | 19 February 2019 | 111 years, 66 days | Oldenburg | United States |
| 90 | Zhenya Broytman | F | 21 August 1899 | 25 October 2010 | 111 years, 65 days | Ukraine | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 91 | Emilie Kreckmann | F | 28 October 1912 | 18 December 2023 | 111 years, 51 days | Bavaria | Saarland |
| 92 | Elisabeth Schlink | F | 3 December 1910 | 24 December 2021 | 111 years, 21 days | West Prussia | Schleswig-Holstein |
| 93 | Anna Palarowska | F | 22 October 1902 | 2 November 2013 | 111 years, 11 days | West Prussia | France |
| 94 | Feuke Glato | F | 26 December 1908 | 31 December 2019 | 111 years, 5 days | Hanover | Lower Saxony |
| 95 | Else Aßmann | F | 18 February 1902 | 15 February 2013 | 110 years, 363 days | Brandenburg | Berlin |
| 96 | Dorothea Duisberg | F | 7 October 1912 | 2 October 2023 | 110 years, 360 days | Bremen | Chile |
| 97 | Herta Hansen | F | 15 October 1910 | 8 October 2021 | 110 years, 358 days | Pomerania | Hesse |
| 97 | Johann Schornack | M | 29 February 1912 | 22 February 2023 | 110 years, 358 days | Rhineland | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 99 | Anna 'Änne' Matschewsky | F | 3 October 1912 | 23 September 2023 | 110 years, 355 days | Rhineland | Baden-Württemberg |
| 100 | Agnes Meier | F | 30 May 1907 | 19 May 2018 | 110 years, 354 days | (unknown) | North Rhine-Westphalia |

## Biographies
### 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.