According to the police, a stranger allegedly attacked and injured two men in Erfurt on Monday morning with a knife.
The attacker then fled, the police said on Monday.
The two victims are 45 and 68 years old.
The police initially gave no information about the severity of the injuries.
The two men came to the hospital, but are not critically injured, as a police spokeswoman said.
The fugitive was first searched for with a helicopter, later a dog was used to look for the man. According to the description, the perpetrator is said to be between 20 and 30 years old, wearing a brown sweater and dark sweatpants and having blonde to reddish curly hair and a scarred face. According to the police, he spoke German. The focus was on the Erfurt district of Wiesenhügel. According to the police, several reports from the population about the incident were received on Monday.
The police have not yet been able to provide any information about the background to the crime.
According to the spokeswoman, the two attacked could not be heard on the facts because they were under medical treatment.
So it is also unclear whether the perpetrator and victim knew each other or were in any way related.
On Friday, a 24-year-old Somali in Würzburg, Bavaria, stabbed three women with a knife and injured seven other people - five of them life-threatening.
He has been arrested and is on remand.