"Puppen-Mutti" wanted and found: A helper found a doll in the flood disaster area on the Ahr in Rhineland-Palatinate and searched for the owner on Facebook.
Then on Sunday the good news: The doll mommy reported, reported Michael Schulze from the Malteser Aid Service in Georgsmarienhütte in Lower Saxony.
It is a four-year-old from Dernau in the Ahr valley.
The doll was probably flushed out of the family car during the flood.
The police in Koblenz had also helped with the search and spread the story on Twitter and Facebook.
The Maltese helper had discovered the doll in a bush.
He and colleagues were on a 30-hour mission in Dernau, where he found the doll on July 31.
“I couldn't just leave it there,” Schulze told the German Press Agency.
He is a father himself and knows how children can hang on to cuddly toys or dolls.
The doll was badly battered.
After his return to Lower Saxony, he cleaned them, and his mother-in-law washed the rompers.
Schulze wants to personally return the doll “Rosi” to its owner in two weeks. She and her family survived the flood unharmed.