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Anton Graf Schwerin von Krosigk from Bad Segeberg had been considered missing since mid-July.
Now there is apparently certainty: the police have withdrawn a public search for the 97-year-old – it is assumed that a body found near Leezen is the missing person.
However, a reliable identification can only be made after the forensic examinations have been completed.
A farmer found the senior's car in a ditch in a grain field on Thursday and the dead a little later.
According to the investigators, there are no indications of third-party negligence.
Anton Graf Schwerin von Krosigk wanted to go to a restaurant at a meeting of the Rotary Club in Bad Segeberg on July 18.
But he didn't get there.
The search for him was initially unsuccessful.
Anton Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was a non-party district administrator for the Segeberg district for 25 years, until 1990.
His father was Adolf Hitler's finance minister, Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk;
he was sentenced to ten years in prison as a war criminal in the Nuremberg trials, but was released after almost two years.
Anton Graf Schwerin von Krosigk's niece is AfD politician Beatrix von Storch.
She had asked Facebook for help with the search and offered a 1,000 euro reward for information that led to von Krosigk's finding.
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