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The German Book of Guinness World Records 2001 listed Marie Martha (99 years old = born in 1900/1901) and Dr. Erich Kästner (100 years old = born in 1900) from Hanover as the longest married couple in Germany. On March 11, 2000 they had their 72nd weddingday. I am quite sure, that this is the WWI-veteran Erich Kästner. He was born on March 10, so he had already celebrated his 100th birthday a day before.
By the way, his wife was born on January 8th 1901 and died on July 24th 2003 at age 102 years and 197 days. As a result she and her husband even managed to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. http://db.genealogy.net/familienanzeigen/detailstod.php?ID=166865&PID=66 Sincerely TB
Update: Apparently he is no longer living in Hanover, but in a nursing home in Pulheim and alive as of mid-December 2007. TB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.60.105.176 ( talk) 22:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Dr. Erich Kästner died 1.1.2008. Here is his death notice: http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/2530/file5573fl9.jpg
(ChrisW) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.131.230.171 ( talk) 09:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
The text below was deleted under the following circumstances, in part: "Today I came across the article linked above after reading a BBC news brief about his death. I was hoping to get a link to get some more information and a link to the de-wp article. ...It turns out that both paragraphs cited the exact same BBC article (check the number at the end of the link), which I had just been reading. The first paragraph had been lifted straight out, and the sentence-long second paragraph, which you added, had only reworded "internet encyclopedia site, Wikipedia" to "German Wikipedia." I have removed the entire section as a violation of the BBC's copyright. — WAvegetarian (talk) 16:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC):
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The post was misdirected to my Talkpage. I was briefly interested by the mention of Wikipedia. I have no further interest in this article, which is not on my Watchlist. . -- Wetman ( talk) 18:10, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry, it was me who lifted it directly to the page. I didn't realise it was an infringement of copyright. I honestly thought that as the BBC is paid for by public money that it was free for use on sites such as Wiki, and because I credited the source I believed it to be ok. I may try to reword it to my own words, but I'm more likely to let someone else do it. I don't know why you make it sound like you just 'came upon' the story on the BBC website, when the whole time it was linked to the actual Wiki page. You make it sound like I did it secretly and claimed the work as my own. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.137.178 ( talk) 20:55, 26 January 2008 (UTC)