Augusta Holtz

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Augusta Louise Holtz (born August 3, 1871 in Czarnikau , Posen Province , as Auguste Louise Hoppe ; † October 21, 1986 in Florissant , Missouri ) held the record for the highest reached human age from 1985 to 1990 . She was the first person known to live to be 114 and 115 years old.

Life

Augusta Louise Holtz was born on August 14, 1871 as the third child of Michael Hoppe (September 3, 1839 - August 11, 1918 in Troy , Illinois ) and his wife Wilhelmine Henriette, née Quade (December 11, 1832, † 19. December 1922 in Troy, Illinois), baptized in Czarnikau in the then Prussian province of Posen. According to the baptism record, she was born on August 3, 1871. The parents had married on April 15, 1866 in Czarnikau, as can also be seen from the filmed church records of the local parish. She had two older sisters and a younger brother. In 1873 the family immigrated to the United States. Her father owned a farm near Troy, Illinois. She married Edward Holtz († 1923) in 1900, with whom she had four children. She survived two of her children. At the age of 109 she moved to the St. Sophia Geriatric Center in Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri , where she also died.

Augusta Holtz was the oldest living person from October 12, 1983 until her death . From May 14, 1985 - when she exceeded the age of previous record holder Fannie Thomas - to May 11, 1990, she was the person with the longest verified lifespan. According to the current state of research, she was the first person to reach the ages of 114 and 115 years. Her age of 115 years and 79 days was first surpassed by Jeanne Calment and then by over forty other people . Augusta Holtz is still the oldest person born in Germany (as of July 2020).

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Individual evidence

  1. Church book entry for the baptism of Augusta Holtz
  2. Church book entry for the parents' marriage
  3. ^ New oldest challenge in The Pittsburgh Press, March 1, 1986
  4. ^ Art. “How do you live to be 114? Just keep having birthdays ”in The Modesto Bee dated December 26, 1985
  5. Your case was only verified in 2012 by the Gerontology Research Group with original documents.