Johanna Klink

Johanna Klink
Born 17 January 1903[1]
Siemianowitz-Laurahütte, Silesia, German Empire
Died February 2015
(aged 112)
Oschatz, Saxony, Germany
Nationality German
Known for Germany's oldest recognized living person
Children One

Johanna Klink (17 January 1903 – February 2015) was a German supercentenarian, who was the oldest living person in Germany since the death of Frieda Szwillus on 21 September 2014.[2]

Biography

She was born on 17 January 1903 in Siemianowitz-Laurahütte, Silesia, Germany (now Siemianowice Śląskie, Silesia Voivodeship, Poland) as one of four sisters. Her youngest sister died aged 98 in 2005. Another sister, Maria Gebel (born 19 November 1906 near Rybnik) died shortly before Klink's 109th birthday at age 105. She was Soltau's oldest citizen.[3]

Klink married three times, and had one daughter called Helga (born around 1938), who is still alive at the time of Klink's death. In 1945 Klink and her family fled to Oschatz, where she lived in a nursing home beginning in 2004. She remained in good physical and mental shape. At age 102 she broke her hip but recovered quickly and was soon able to walk with an aid.[4][5][6]

Johanna Klink died on either 19 or 20 February 2015, at age 112 years and 33 or 34 days.[7][8] The death left Charlotte Klamroth as the oldest living person in Germany.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Oldest Validated Living Supercentenarians". Gerontology Research Group. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Germany's oldest woman dies at 112
  3. ↑ "Maria Gebel liest mit 103 Jahren noch täglich Zeitung" (PDF). 18 May 2010.
  4. ↑ "Oschatzerin Johanna Klink mit 109 Jahren die zweitälteste Bürgerin in Sachsen". 17 January 2012.
  5. ↑ "Oschatzerin ist mit 111 Jahren älteste Sächsin". 17 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "Die Methusalems von Sachsen". MDR Sachsenspiegel. 25 September 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Mit 112 friedlich eingeschlafen: Älteste Deutsche gestorben". 23 February 2015.
  8. 1 2 "Charlotte Klamroth ist jetzt die älteste Deutsche". RP Online. Retrieved 11 February 2016.


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