Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff

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Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff on being appointed honorary patron of the campaign "One Europe - one number"

Edelgard Ida Valeska Huber von Gersdorff (* December 7, 1905 in Gera , as Edelgard Ida Valeska von Gersdorff; † April 9, 2018 in Karlsruhe ) was a supercentenarian and at times the oldest living German woman. On the day of her death, she was 112 years and 123 days old and was probably one of the 15 oldest people from German-speaking countries .

Life

Edelgard von Gersdorff came from the noble noble family Gersdorff . When she was nine years old, her father Franz Erdmann von Gersdorff (1866–1927) was drafted as an officer in the First World War. Her mother Elsa (1882–1945) moved with her two children Edelgard and Helga to Karlsruhe , from where her family Stiefbold came from; she was killed in an air raid on the city of Naumburg (Saale) in April 1945 at the age of 63 . Elsa was the daughter of the Royal Prussian Major General Rudolf Stiefbold and his wife Elise Meier, who went through their father, the Karlsruhe doctor. Hofrat Eduard Meier was the great-granddaughter of the real secret council at the Baden court Emanuel Meier , who was granddaughter of the Heidelberg entrepreneur, mayor and member of the Baden state parliament Jacob Wilhelm Speyerer through her mother Emma Speyerer .

At the age of 22, Edelgard von Gersdorff fell ill with polio . Her father died that same year. She spent a few years in bed and learned to walk again with great difficulty. She continued to do sports, rode a bicycle and first studied chemistry at the Technical University Fridericiana in Karlsruhe and then law in Heidelberg . Until she reached retirement age, she worked as a legal advisor at the Deutsche Bau- und Bodenbank .

Edelgard von Gersdorff had been married to Walther Huber (1902–1987) since New Year's Eve 1938 , architecture professor and rector of the Karlsruhe State Engineering School from 1953 to 1968. The marriage remained childless.

On December 7, 2017, she celebrated her 112th birthday in Karlsruhe.

For the day of Europe-wide emergency call number 112 on February 11, 2018 was Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff honorary patron of the campaign "One Europe - one number", with the Europe-wide validity of euro emergency call is advertised. As the oldest living woman in Germany at the time, she had seen the development of Europe since the German Empire and during two world wars, as well as European unification, and felt herself to be a European. "The 112 is the symbol for help and an important symbol for European unification," said Huber von Gersdorff.

On April 9, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of her mother's death, Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff died at home in Karlsruhe. In the months before her death, she was the oldest living German woman and, after Gustav Gerneth, the second oldest living person in Germany.

literature

  • Rei Gesing: The wisdom of the 100 year olds. 7 questions to the oldest people in Germany (= MonoLit; Volume 1). Solibro Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-96079-061-7 , pp. 122–125 (Vita, interview, two illustrations).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germany's oldest woman has died . In: evangelisch.de , April 10, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018.
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , 1979, p. 190 as well as family tree of the Meier clan (unpublished in family ownership).
  3. ↑ Congratulations: “I am still able to learn” . In: StadtZeitung, Official Gazette of the City of Karlsruhe , December 15, 2017, accessed April 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ Volker Knopf: Karlsruhe celebrates 112th birthday: "The oldest German is a Karlsruhe" . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt , December 7, 2017, accessed April 10, 2018.
    Huber . Entry in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe, accessed on April 10, 2018.
    Anette Rößler: “Over 100 years of lightness” . In: Nordstadtzeitung des Bürgererverein Nordstadt, issue 79, March 2017, pp. 12-13, accessed on April 10, 2018 (pdf; 18 MB).
  5. ↑ Karlsruhe celebrates her 112th birthday: "Getting older is a matter of luck" . swr.de , December 7, 2017, accessed April 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Bock: Oldest German at 112 years: "I am in favor of uniting the world" . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , February 23, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ Emergency 112: One Europe - one number . Federal government press release, February 20, 2018, accessed on April 10, 2018.
    112 - One Europe, one number . In: Euractiv , February 9, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Huber von Gersdorff, Edelgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gersdorff, Edelgard Ida Valeska Freiin von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German supercentenarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2018
Place of death Karlsruhe