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Father searches Tyrolean mountains for missing 25-year-old daughter
Carolin, a 25-year-old from Hesse, has been missing since September 6.
She is known to enjoy hiking and was in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Mittenwald area before she disappeared.
Her family is focusing its search on the border region between Germany and Tyrol, including the areas around Ehrwald, Gaistal and Leutasch.
Her father visited a mountain hut in Leutasch and put up a poster while searching nearby peaks.
He planned to look for her on the 2,662-metre Hohe Munde, but the hut’s manager advised that she would likely have been noticed there by other visitors.
A search of the mountain from the air found no sign of her.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact Garmisch-Partenkirchen police, including people who may have photos from hikes in the area.
Carolin, a 25-year-old woman from Hesse, has been missing since 6 September.
Her family and police have focused their search on the border area between Germany and Tyrol, including Ehrwald, Gaistal and Leutasch.
Her father went to the Rauthhütte in Leutasch and searched mountain peaks for signs of her, including the Hohe Munde.
A flight over the area the following day found no sign of her.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact the Garmisch-Partenkirchen police.
- Who
- Carolin, a missing 25-year-old from Hesse, and her father, who has been searching for her.
- What
- Her father searched mountain areas in Tyrol for clues to her whereabouts. Police and her family are seeking information.
- When
- Carolin has been missing since 6 September 2026. Her father visited the Rauthhütte on a Wednesday in the week before 19 October.
- Where
- The search is focused on the border area between Tyrol and Bavaria, including Leutasch, Ehrwald and the area around Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
- Why
- Carolin is missing, and reports said she may have been in the Tyrolean border area before she disappeared.
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Police said Carolin had been in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Mittenwald area.
Carolin was reported missing.
Police issued a notice saying she was mountain-oriented and had been in the border area with Austria.
A report said the search had turned toward the Tyrolean border area, including Ehrwald, Gaistal and Leutasch.
Carolin's father visited the Rauthhütte and said he was searching peaks in the border area, including the Hohe Munde.
An acquaintance of the hut manager searched the Hohe Munde area from the air and found no sign.
- Age
- 25
- Missing since
- 6 September 2026
- Height
- About 1.75 metres
- Search area
- Border region around Ehrwald, Gaistal and Leutasch
- Police contact
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen: 08821 9170
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What people are saying
He introduced himself as the father of the missing young woman.
I told him that with the large number of visitors to this mountain, Carolin would probably have been noticed.
We ask hikers, mountaineers, mountain bikers, local residents and holidaymakers who were there at the beginning of September to help!
Backpacks, clothing or shoes could help with identification.