Hedwig Zaugg, the oldest living person in Switzerland, sadly passed away last night, aged 111, in Huttwil, Canton of Bern (CHE).

Hedwig Zaugg was born in the Stampfe district in Walterswil, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, on 17 May 1915. At the age of three and a half, Hedwig lost her mother to the Spanish flu. She grew up as the youngest of four siblings—two sisters and a brother—with the support of her grandparents and under the care of her father, who later remarried.

In 1941, at the age of 26, she married Andreas Zaugg. They welcomed their first daughter, Marianne, in 1944, followed by their second daughter, Katharina, in 1949. That same year, Andreas gave Hedwig a sewing machine and a knitting machine to use at home. Also in 1949, the couple took over the stamping mill previously run by Hedwig’s father. She was widowed in 1992.

On 19 October 2025, following the passing of 110-year-old Francine Grandjean, she became the oldest living person in Switzerland.

https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/aelteste-schweizerin-hedwig-zaugg-mit-111-jahren-gestorben/6g545xg

Rest in peace.