Friedrich Wedeking

Friedrich Wedeking (October 10, 1862; May 5, 1973) was the first German supercentenarian. He was born in Bromberg, prussian Province Posen - at this time no part of the German Confederation but of Prussia and today a part of Poland. He died in Dortmund.

He was the oldest man in the world from around August 1970, at the death of Khasako Dzugayev, until his own death.