Pullach's oldest resident, Elisabeth Richter, has now passed away at the age of 108.
Pullach
– She was the oldest citizen of the Pullach community.
Elisabeth Richter has now died at the stately age of 108.
The old lady, who had had a really exciting youth, has been living in the house on Wiesenweg lately.
Year after year, the church congratulated her on her birthday, and even when she was over 100, she was still approachable.
And when you told her you knew how adventurous she used to be, she laughed.
A delicate woman with white hair who was always in a wheelchair.
Elisabeth Richter was born on August 19, 1913, the First World War had not yet begun.
She would experience all of this now, a century of contemporary history.
The First World War, the revolution, the wobbling of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, the Second World War, the economic upswing.
Spontaneously on a trip around the world
After graduating from high school, in the 1930s, she went to the US and Canada to study, and in the US she met another young woman named Gretel - and with whom she decided to return overland to Germany.
"Because we wouldn't have dared to do it alone," she said five years ago, "we took two young men with us."
Ultimately, the four were in Japan and Korea and Manchuria, among other places.
Came through China and Indochina.
They climbed Mount Fujiyama and trekked through the jungles of Angkor.
In 1936/37, after two or three years, they were safely back in Germany.
hard war years
However, the war did not leave Elisabeth Richter untouched.
She fled to Transylvania with her husband, gave birth to a disabled baby there – and was then conscripted to work in a coal mine in what is now Ukraine.
She didn't see her husband for five years - and didn't know where he was, she also had to leave the baby behind.
In 1954 the two had another daughter, Andrea, and when she was 90, she and her mother wrote a book about their exciting life.
It is called "My two lives" and was awarded the German Biography Prize.
However, she had to spend a large part of this life alone, her husband had already died in 1979 in a car accident in Nairobi.
There were photos of him on her desk, and the watercolors that hung in her room were his.
In which she survived all the corona waves that had also rolled through this retirement home.
In an obituary notice from the community, Pullach's mayor, Susanna Millennium (Greens), has once again reminded of the many adventures of Elisabeth Richter.