for Hours he was gone. About 90 forces were looking for a dementia Oberauer. Without having a clue.

Oberau– He could be anywhere. No one knew where the 79-Year-old was staying. In which direction and how far the Oberauer foot. Many hours he was already gone. "We had no clue," says Florian Schindlbeck, commander of the fire brigade Oberau. The wife had reported her dementia-affected husband at noon on Thursday at the police as missing, after he was gone since the night before.

on the basis of the residential address of the Missing searched then, around 90 task forces of fire, police including dogs and helicopter, mountain rescue, BRK velvet-rescue dog teams from the whole of the Oberland, such as Weilheim, Bad Tölz, the area between Farchant and Eschenlohe. "The area has been divided into sections," explains Jörg Jovy by BRK-Kreisverband Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Walking paths from the operators of the rescue organizations after the man. The water of the river Loisach between Oberau and Farchant left wakes up with two Rafts. Nothing, no trace of the Senior. "We were scared," says Jovy, "we have a dead search."

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But the large-scale action took, contrary to the fears of a happy ending. One of the search dogs hit the evening at the Evangelical Church, in the home of the Missing. A team of firefighters – 35 forces from Oberau, a total out – to went of the track. Against 21 o'clock discovered schindl Becks comrades, the man at the Georg kircherl at the old cemetery. A little soaked, but otherwise in good health, according to the police. Where the man had all this time detained, knowing neither Jovy still Schindlbeck. "You have not brought it out of him," says the commander, is not even have been there. The rescue service brought the 79-Year-old as a precaution for further treatment to the hospital of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

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