Missed 14-year-old: Anzhela Stratulate is safely back!

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Im Lahn-Dill-Kreis wurden zwei vermisste Personen gefunden: Eine 14-Jährige kehrte wohlbehalten zurück, ein 80-Jähriger wurde angetroffen.
Two missing people were found in the Lahn-Dill district: a 14-year-old returned safely, an 80-year-old was found. (Symbolbild/ANAG)

on March 17, 2025, it was announced that the 14-year-old Anzhela Stratulate from Lahnau, who had been missing since March 15, 2025, has returned safely to her residential address. This message triggered the public investigation that has existed since Saturday, March 15th. According to News.de The return of Azhelas has made many relatives and friends easier.

In another missing person from the Wetzlar region, an 80-year-old man who had been missing since March 1, 2025 was found by the emergency services. The public investigation was also withdrawn here. As presseportal.de , asked to remove the photo of the formerly missing online portals. This shows that the police are able to find missing people quickly and thus minimize potential dangers.

The role of the police in missing cases

The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) plays a central role in the processing of missing persons in Germany. Since its foundation in 1951, the BKA's “missing person” has been taking care of the search for missing persons and the identification of unknown corpses. It also supports helpless people and introduces large -scale search measures as soon as an acute danger is determined. According to bka.de , a person is missing if they are inexplicably absent and a danger to life or life is suspected.

at, including, approval of reports by the police is particularly important to protect missing minors. In principle, there is a danger in the case of missing minors. If there are unaccompanied minor refugees, the clarification rate is around 79 %. Around 4,300 such cases were registered in 2024, with the most common countries of origin Syria, Afghanistan, Morocco and Algeria. So there are significant challenges that the police have to deal with to ensure the security of this vulnerable group.

  • Around 18,100 children were missing in 2024, of which 96.7 % were informed again by the end of the year.
  • The police were able to help with 200 to 300 new cases every day at the end of 2025, in which 50 % of the reports are clarified within the first week.
In summary, it is of the utmost importance that the public continues to have an eye on possible missing people and quickly passes information on. The recently withdrawn public investigations for Anzhela Stratulat and the 80-year-old man from Wetzlar show that the cooperation between the police and the public is crucial for the security of everyone.

For questions about further missing persons, the police headquarters in Mittelhessen is available at the following address:

Leadership and positioning service, Ferniestrasse 8, 35394 Gießen.

Telephone: 0641/7006-3381.

Email: ful.ppmh@polizei.hessen.de.

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