Gustav Gerneth

Gustav Gerneth (born 15 October 1905) is a German supercentenarian who is, at the age of, Germany's oldest living person since the passing of Herta Oeser on 13 March 2016 and Germany's oldest living man since the passing of 108-year-old Erich Walde on 5 August 2013. He is currently unverified. He is also the oldest German man ever, surprass the record of Hermann Dornemann. He is the oldest living World War II veteran in the world.

Biography
Gerneth was born on 15 October 1905 in Stettin in what was then German but is now Polish territory, where he was trained as machinist and started his career by seafaring in 1924. On New Years Eve 1930 he met his future wife Charlotte, who died in 1988. The couple raised three sons and Gerneth retired in 1965.

At the time of his 110th birthday, he was the seventh man from Germany to become a supercentenarian. He outlived all of his sons, being in their 80s, at age 109. Until age 107 he purchased everything on his own. Later his family organized this but Gerneth is still able to take care of himself, for example cooking and tidying up. Becoming a supercentenarian, he was reported to still live on his own in Havelberg, inhabiting the same apartment for more than 40 years.