Overview
- Bezirksbürgermeister Oliver Igel and district councillor Carolin Weingart visited on November 11 to offer personal congratulations, the Treptow-Köpenick district office said.
- Born in 1914 in Seddin and raised in nearby Michendorf, she later moved to Berlin to work for the railway and adopted a child as a single woman from a children’s home.
- She currently lives in a seniors’ shared flat in Niederschöneweide with a cat, according to local reporting.
- Local outlets citing B.Z. report she worked as a chambermaid and in wartime hospital service, later held an administrative role with the Reichsbahn, and has been retired for about 50 years.
- Tagesspiegel cites federal demographic data showing that in 2024 Berlin had 5,470 women and 1,540 men aged 95 or older, with an average city age of 42.8 years.