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Else Rönsch
Else Ronsch
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Else Rönsch (17 March 1904 - 5 October 2015) was a German supercentenarian who was the oldest living person in Germany from the death of Margarete Dannheimer on 2 July 2015, to her own death three months later.

Biography

She was born in Ahlbeck in 1904 as oldest of three siblings to a plumber and worked in the family establishment as office clerk. Else Rönsch was not married until the age of 66. Finding true love was hard work, she revealed on her 110th birthday. Until 2010, she was living on her own. Aged 106 she left her hometown Ahlbeck and moved into a nursing home in Heringsdorf where she was visited by her relatives from time to time. Rönsch never had children.

Ronsch died on 5 October, 2015, at the age of 111 years, 202 days.

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