Overview

• The Hamburger Feuerwehr recovered the second body from the Außenalster at around 17:30 on July 8 with signs it had been submerged for some time.
• This discovery follows a body pulled from the Binnenalster last Friday, marking two waterway recoveries in under a week.
• Police have reported no evidence of third-party involvement in either case.
• The remains have been transferred to the Institut für Rechtsmedizin for formal identification and forensic examination.
• Multiple recent finds across Hamburg’s rivers and lakes remain unidentified and undetermined in cause, underscoring challenges in aquatic forensic investigations.