Gustav Gerneth

Gustav Gerneth (15 October 1905 – 21 October 2019) was a German World War II-veteran and possibly the oldest man ever in Germany, as well as the world's oldest man at the time of his death. However, his age is not validated by Guinness World Records and the Gerontology Research Group.

Gerneth worked in a shipping company and at a gas plant during World War II. He was a Soviet prisoner-of-war until 1947 when he was released from imprisonment. He married his wife Charlotte (died in 1988) in 1930 and the couple had three sons, all of whom now deceased.

On 29 January 2018, following the death of 113-year-old Francisco Núñez Olivera of Spain, Gerneth became the oldest living man in Europe.

On 20 January 2019, following the death of 113-year-old Masazō Nonaka of Japan, Gerneth became a candidate to the title of the world’s oldest man, as well as possibly the last surviving man born in 1905.

Gustav Gerneth died in Havelberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, 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.

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Category:German centenarians
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Category:People from Szczecin