When her husband was still not at home on Friday morning, a woman from the Weilheim-Schongau district called the police.
On Thursday evening, the 65-year-old went fishing in a small rowing boat in Fischen on the Ammersee.
After the police discovered the vehicle had left the bank in Aidenried, a search was initiated.
Dießen / Aidenried
- A large number of water guards, the Herrsching volunteer fire brigade and the Dießen water police, supported by a police helicopter, were involved in the search from 10 a.m. For four and a half hours, around 40 rescuers from Dießen, Utting, Schondorf, Eching and Herrsching were on and in the water with divers from the SEK Schondorf and Seefeld to search the southern area of the Ammersee. According to Thomas Forstner's estimate, the lake temperature was around 18 or 19 degrees. Forstner was the head of operations for the Landsberg district water watch responsible for the Ammersee.
The emergency services found the rowing boat that capsized at the river Ammer. And the man's backpack was also discovered. However, there was no trace of the 65-year-old. At around 2 p.m., the water watch was stopped. The police in charge of the search measures in Dießen instead called in the technical relief organization, which searched the lake for the missing person with a sonar device.
The fact that the woman only reported her husband missing the next day, according to the police, has to do with the fact that it was not uncommon for him to go out in the boat in the evening. It was also dark on Thursday when he went fishing. That's why she wasn't surprised he wasn't there when she went to sleep. When he still wasn't home that morning, he was. The search for him continued into the evening hours. grä
