{"id":120288,"date":"2025-11-06T02:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120288\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T02:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:17:08","slug":"german-woman-lydia-gottsmann-named-after-death-near-fox-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120288\/","title":{"rendered":"German woman Lydia Gottsmann named after death near Fox River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cShe was sighted nearby by a police search and rescue member,\u201d Kirkwood said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Her death had been referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice offer our sincere condolences to her family and friends at this difficult time,\u201d Kirkwood said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany earlier confirmed it had been contacted by police about Gottsmann\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnfortunately, due to data protection regulations, we as the embassy cannot share any further information with news or media outlets without consent from the individual or family members,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe regret that we can\u2019t be of further assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Ben Tomsett is a multimedia journalist based in Dunedin. He joined the Herald in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShe was sighted nearby by a police search and rescue member,\u201d Kirkwood said. Her death had been referred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1558,11586,690,634,1874,4131,71,49753,1223,84743,42,84742,10136,3180,43,675,6739,40,38,41,39,4767,3807,1354],"class_list":["post-120288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-been","tag-coast","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-found","tag-fox","tag-from","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-gottsmann","tag-headlines","tag-lydia","tag-named","tag-near","tag-news","tag-police","tag-river","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weekend","tag-west","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}