Luise Pompe

Luise Pompe
Luise Pompe on her 110th birthday in 2018.
Birth:	13 October 1908 Chernivtsi, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine)
Death:	11 November 2022 Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Age:	114 years, 29 days
Country:	AUT
Validated

Luise Philippine Pompe (13 October 1908 – 11 November 2022), previously known as L.P., was an Austrian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She holds the record for the oldest Austrian ever, the first from the country to reach both 113 and 114, and was among the top 15 oldest people in the world at the time of her death.

Biography

Luise Pompe was born in Chernivtsi, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine) on 13 October 1908. As a child, she learned to play the piano and in later years was a student of Hedda Ballon (1893–1979). According to a newspaper report from 1932, she was already working as a teacher herself at that time. Pompe was unmarried and childless throughout her life. Around 1965, she worked as a librarian and lived in an apartment at Ilgplatz 5 in Vienna's second district, Leopoldstadt. She retired on 31 December 1970. Pompe lived in her apartment in Vienna until the end and ran her household largely independently until she was 103 years old.

At the end of 2011, she became a customer of the private care service 24Stundenpflege, which takes care of elderly people in need of care who still live in their own homes.

On 13 October 2018, she celebrated her 110th birthday, becoming a supercentenarian. Back then, her full name was not given to the society. Instead articles refered to her as "L.P.". The full name was released only after Pompe had died in 2022.

On 23 September 2019, following the death of 111-year-old Anna Wiesmayr, Pompe became the oldest living person in Austria.

On 10 April 2021, at the age of 112 years, 179 days, Pompe surpassed the final age of Maria Mika (1882–1994) of 112 years, 178 days, becoming the oldest person ever to live in Austria.

On 13 October 2021, Pompe celebrated her 113th birthday, becoming the first supercentenarian in Austria's history to have reached the age of 113.

On 16 July 2022, following the death of 113-year-old Josefine Ollmann of Germany, Pompe became the last surviving European person born in 1908. Until her death, she was intellectually active, well-read, and remained actively interested in world events.

Luise Pompe died in Vienna, Vienna, Austria, on 11 November 2022, at the age of 114 years, 29 days. Following her death, then 111-year-old Margarete Troestl became the oldest living person in Austria.

References

• 2025 validations Gerontology Research Group
• Heute ist ein ganz besonderer Tag - wir konnten mit unserer Kundin Frau L.P. ihren 110 24StundenPflege (Facebook), 15 October 2018
• Bestattungskalender (Death Notice) (Archived)

Austria's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Maria Mika • Pauline Horak • Theresia Pichler • Leopold Vietoris • Adda Tinter • Marianne Habekost • Hermine Gorsak • Karoline Theyrer • Rosa Broz • Hermine Hermann • Anna Rudicky • Hermina Dunz • Hermine Hinner • Hermine Nistler • Cacilia Buchinger • Romana Swoboda • Theresia Sommer • Antonia Kubesch • Julia Zohrer • Anonymous • Anna Medwenitsch • Anna Wiesmayr • Luise Pompe • Margarete Troestl • Anna Wagner