Hans Schornack

Hans Schornack
Schornack at the age of 110
Birth:	29 February 1912 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death:	22 February 2023 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Age:	110 years, 358 days
Country:	GER
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Johann "Hans" Schornack (29 February 1912 – 22 February 2023) was a German supercentenarian who was believed to be the oldest living man in Germany since the death of Heinrich Homann on 24 June 2020, and the oldest living German-born man since the death of Arnold Leissler of Poland on 13 March 2021. He was also the oldest known living person in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the oldest known living man in Europe since the death of Andre Boite on 15 July 2022.

Biography

Hans Schornack was born in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on 29 February 1912. During the second World War, he was not drafted into the German military, which he later said he was very glad about due to being a self-described pacifist. He worked as a mechanic for Opel and Ford for several years before he became self-employed in the auto trade. He also worked in a kiosk on Frohnhauser Platz and sold tobacco products there. He drove a car until the age of 95.

In January 2021, at the age of 108, he received his COVID-19 vaccine, making him one of oldest people to receive the vaccine. In 2022, he was reported to have recovered from a mild case of the infection shortly before turning 110, making him the oldest (known) person in Germany to get COVID at the time.

Schornack died in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on 22 February 2023 at the age of 110 years, 358 days. Due to being born on leap day, he only experienced his birthday 28 times throughout his entire life, with his most recent birthday having occurred in 2020. He is the oldest known person ever born on leap day. Following his death, Andre Ludwig became the oldest known living man in Europe, and Karlheinz Stauber became the oldest known living man in Germany.

Gallery

Aged 104

Aged 108, being vaccinated against Covid-19 in January 2021

Aged 109

On his 110th birthday in 2022

Aged 110, in 2022

References

• 104-Jähriger verlässt gesund und munter das Marienhospital Lokalkompass, 17 May 2016
• 108th birthday confirmation The 110 Club, 31 March 2020
• Impfbereitschaft in GSE-Einrichtungen weiterhin hoch gse-essen.de, 25 January 2021
• 109th birthday confirmation The 110 Club, 28 February 2021
• Ältester Essener feiert im Alfried-Krupp-Heim seinen 109. Geburtstag, 4 March 2021
• 110 Jahre: Essens ältester Bürger hat zwei Weltkriege erlebt, 1 March 2022
• Ältester Essener stirbt kurz vor seinem 111. Geburtstag Waz.de, 27 February 2023
• Johannes Schornack Obituary Trauer in NRW

Europe's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E)

Geert Adriaans Boomgaard • Unknown • Matthias Dodenhoff • Frederick Stabbins • William Mugfur • Sven Eriksson • Jean-Pierre Dupont • William Walker • Bening Arnold • Hans Schaftner-Burgin • Lars Olofsson • Marc Picq • Johan Svanstrom • Erik Jansson • Francesco Cubadda • Thomas Pope • John Francklow • Karl Nilsson • Constant De Lichte • Antonio Marchi • August Karlsson • Karl Glockner • Anders Jonasson • Mathias Hansen Saether • Jan Kip • Willem Kostering • Francesco Paba • John Mosley Turner • Antonije Mladenovic • Friedrich Wedeking • Frederick Butterfield • Jean Teillet • Pasquale Cappello • Giuseppe Arena • Luigi Saba • Ingebrigt Johansen • Victor Guillot • Andrei Kuznetsoff • Herman Smith-Johannsen • John Evans • Henri Perignon • Domenico Minervino • Josep Armengol-Jover • Pablo Roy • Emile Fourcade • Bernard Delhom • Valentino Stella • Gregorio Merino • Antonio Baldo • Antonio Urrea-Hernandez • Alejandro Rivera Santalla • Antonio Todde • Joan Riudavets-Moll • Hermann Dornemann • Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski • Maurice Floquet • Henry Allingham • Harry Patch • Stanley Lucas • Jan Goossenaerts • Francisco Fernandez • Arturo Licata • Rezso Gallai • Philippe Vocanson • Harold Bracher • Francisco Nunez Olivera • Gustav Gerneth • Bob Weighton • Dumitru Comanescu • Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia • Stanislaw Kowalski • Andre Boite • Hans Schornack • Andre Ludwig • John Tinniswood

Germany's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E)

Karl Glockner • Unknown • Josef Callenberg • Mathias Bollinger • Unknown • Johann Hartlieb • Adolf Lange • Karl Pfeiffer • Johann Wost • Friedrich Wedeking • August Schmidt • Wilhelm Deffner • Karl Bulow • Fritz Witt • Heinrich Oppermann • Ernst Schutt • Wenzel Novotny • Otto Trost • Peter Schmitt • Friedrich von Rauchhaupt • Wilhelm Gazioch • A. Hermann Lange • Ernst Laurenty • Gustav Rupnow • Robert Hubener • Wilhelm Lehnen • Jonathan Richter • Wilhelm Schorner • Lorenz Imminger • Georg Bredtschneider • Hermann Dornemann • Robert Meier • Wilhelm Remmert • Rudolf Christmann • Georg Thalhofer • Franz Kunstler • Georg Rosenkranz • Hermann Mayer-Kaupp • Erich Berger • Richard Hinz • Friedrich Volmer • Martin Dressel • Paul Veit • Bernhard Prott • Erich Walde • Gustav Gerneth • Heinrich Homann • Hans Schornack • Karlheinz Stauber • Karl Haidle •