Katharina Braun

Katharina Braun (23 September 1867 – 5 February 1979) was a German supercentenarian and the record holder for the highest age of a person born and died in Germany. The record holder before her was Friedrich Wedeking - for females Ella Ille Rentel; her record was broken by Paula Marie Baumgärtner. She was born and died in Offenbach an der Queich. Katharina Braun was the last German living in Germany born before the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 and oldest of the persons not born in the German Confederation.