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Germany's oldest man dies, despite unusual drinking regimen


Fri Mar 4, 2:25 AM ET
- AFP


BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's oldest man, who has died aged 111, said that a little sweetened beer and the potato cooking water most people throw out were the secret of his longevity, family members said.

Hermann Doernemann passed away on Wednesday at a clinic in Duesseldorf, western Germany from the effects of pneumonia, some three months short of his 112 birthday, on May 27.

Doernemann had long been considered the world's oldest man by the Guinness Book of World Records until a Puerto Rican man aged 113 surfaced.

"I never heard him complain, he was always satisfied," Doernemann's daughter Rita Klein said.

Born in Essen in 1893, Doernemann stayed in good shape well into his twilight years, never travelled and drank a glass of sweetened beer each day, members of his family said.

On occasion he would drink water used to cook potatoes, just for the vitamins, he maintained.

I'm not too keen on that potato-cooking water, though. Maybe with a shot of schnapps added for flavor...

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it does the body good