Pauline Raissle

Pauline Raissle
Pauline Raissle at age 108
Birth:	16 December 1905 Tumlingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany
Death:	29 August 2017 Metzingen, Germany
Age:	111 years, 256 days
Country:	GER
Validated

Pauline Raissle [German: Pauline Raißle] (16 December 1905 – 29 August 2017) was a German supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) in 2022.

Biography

Raissle was born as the eighth of eleven siblings in Tumlingen on 16 December 1905. She started working as an ancilla when she was 8 years old. In the late 1920s, she moved to Riederich. Initially, Raissle was not interested in getting married, but she met a man and the marriage took place in 1932. The couple had five daughters who were all alive at the time Raissle turned 110.

In 1999, she moved to the nursing home in Metzingen, where she lived for the rest of her life. On her 104th birthday, she was reported to be in the need of glasses only for the reading and she was said not to be using denture. Some years later, it was also reported that Raissle took care of other residents by having contact with them, talking about God, and feeding them, if necessary. She attributed her longevity to God and her steady Christianity.

She died in Metzingen, Germany on 29 August 2017 at the age of 111 years, 256 days. At the time of her death, she was the third-oldest known living person in Germany, after Gustav Gerneth and Mathilde Mange.

References

• Im Herzen und Kopf jung geblieben Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, 17 December 2014