German Fire Brigade Association

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German Fire Brigade Association
(DFV)
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legal form registered association
founding July 10, 1853
Seat BerlinBerlin Berlin GermanyGermanyGermany 
purpose Representation of interests of the state fire brigade associations and 2 federal groups
Members 18th
Website www.feuerwehrverband.de
Class 101 locomotive as an advertising medium for the German Fire Brigade Association

The German Fire Brigade Association e. V. , or DFV for short , has been the trade association of German fire services since July 10, 1853 . As an umbrella organization, it represents the interests of the 16 regional fire brigade associations as well as the two federal fire brigade and professional fire brigade groups . According to the statutes, the German Youth Fire Brigade (DJF) is part of the German Fire Brigade Association.

The association has represented the German fire brigades with their 1.3 million fire brigade members in the world fire brigade association CTIF (Comité technique international de prévention et d'extinction du feu) since it was founded on August 16, 1900. The German fire brigade association is the publisher of the German fire brigade newspaper , the appears monthly in the trade journal Brandschutz .

The association and its members are regularly present in the German Bundestag , in bodies, hearings and committees throughout Germany to represent the positions of the German fire service.

history

The German Fire Brigade Association was founded in Plochingen on July 10, 1853 on the initiative of the Ulm fire brigade commander Conrad Dietrich Magirus . On June 19, Magirus published a request for a meeting of the boards of all fire departments in Württemberg in the Swabian Merkur and invited them to the Waldhorn Hall. Ten fire brigade commanders took part in the meeting and decided to found an association. A fire brigade day should take place regularly to exchange views. 45 fire brigades took part in the fourth German Fire Brigade Conference in Mainz in 1860, and around 2,000 representatives from 135 fire brigades took part in the fifth German Fire Brigade Conference in 1862 in Augsburg.

There was a radical intervention in the construction and structure of the fire brigades during the National Socialist era with the law on fire extinguishing . On instructions from the Reich Ministry of the Interior, the association ceased operations in 1938. The re-establishment after the Second World War took place on January 12, 1952 in Fulda (Hesse).

From the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s, the German Fire Brigade Association and its subordinate associations annually called for the nationwide fire protection week to be held under a different motto in order to improve acceptance of the fire brigade among the population.

Triggered by German reunification , the state fire brigade associations of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia have also belonged to the German Fire Brigade Association since the end of 1990.

The German Fire Brigade Museum in Fulda is partially financed by the association.

Hartmut Ziebs, who was elected to succeed Hans-Peter Kröger, who retired for reasons of age, has been President of the German Fire Brigade Association since January 1, 2016. On November 12, 2019, five of the seven vice-presidents withdrew their trust for reasons unknown and asked him to resign. Ziebs brought this in connection with his own statements about right-wing populist infiltration of the fire brigade and the hiring of Müjgan Percin with Turkish ancestors as federal manager. Zieb's presentation contradicted the Presidential Council in a meeting on December 6, 2019 in Braunschweig. The Presidential Council claimed the question of resignation was "at no time linked to the president's political statements against right-wing populism" and made it clear, "The fire service associations do not cover any right-wing national tendencies. We do not tolerate radical ideas, but stand up for all the values ​​of a free democracy. ”According to the Presidential Council, the crisis of confidence lay in structural problems and disrupted communication in the Presidium and condemned threats against Ziebs and denigrations of Vice-Presidents in social media. The presidential council of the association withdrew its confidence in Ziebs in Braunschweig. A delegate assembly of the association should be convened for April 2020 to fill the office of president. Ziebs does not want to run again at this delegates' meeting.

On December 14, 2019, the fire brigade magazine published reasons for the crisis of confidence between Ziebs and the Presidium: Ziebs have u. a. repeatedly not informing the Presidium about events in the association. For example, the deputy federal manager Rudolf Römer had been released from work for half a year on instructions from Ziebs after an accumulation of overtime without the presidium having been informed; the exemption was officially given out of consideration for Roman's health. On November 4, 2019, his personal power of attorney for Römer was withdrawn, which according to the association's statutes could not be carried out without hearing the Presidential Council. Also on December 14, 2019, Hartmut Ziebs announced his final resignation as President of the German Fire Brigade Association on December 31, 2019.

President

tasks

The tasks include:

The association is a member of the European Movement Network .

Members

In accordance with the statutes, the German Fire Brigade Association is financed through contributions from the full members.

organs

The organs of the German Fire Brigade Association are:

  • Assembly of delegates
  • Presidential Council
  • Bureau
  • Advisory Board

The largest representative event of the German Fire Brigade Association is the " German Fire Brigade Day", which has been held in major German cities since 1854 and has been held for ten years since 1970.

Working method

The German Fire Brigade Association maintains a federal office in Berlin-Mitte with several full-time employees and an office in Brussels that is not permanently manned and works under the name “Representation of German Fire Brigades in the European Union”. As an organized lobbyist, the DFV is entered in the public list of registered associations of the German Bundestag as well as in the transparency register of the European Union. The annual financial expenditure for activities that fall under the transparency register is given as less than € 10,000 for 2016.

The positions of the DFV are based on the results of the 12 areas of professional work within the association, the findings of which are available to both the political association work and the public.

In 2016, the DFV's statement on a draft law on the eleventh ordinance amending the driving license ordinance, which the Federal Council first halted and then took off the agenda for further discussion, caused a sensation at federal level . The original draft law envisaged the D1 driving license class (instead of C1, C1E, C and CE) for common fire brigade vehicles with a total weight of over 3.5 t , which resulted in massive additional costs for the fire brigade agencies and the majority of them having to acquire the D1 driving license class who would have led the fire brigade machinists suitable as drivers .

In the area of ​​public relations, the focus was recently on the European emergency number 112, integration and women in the fire service.

Honorary President

German fire brigade world champions

X. International fire fighting competition in Berlin in 1993, winner in the fire fighting discipline - FF Beselich-Obertiefenbach

The following German teams became world champions at the world championships of the World Fire Brigade Association CTIF, which take place every four years :

year venue Fire department competition team state
1973 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Brno Fire fighting sport competitions - fire fighting attack BF DDR
1981 GermanyGermany Boeblingen Fire fighting sport competitions - fire fighting attack BF DDR
1985 AustriaAustria Vöcklabruck Fire fighting sport competitions - fire fighting attack BF DDR
1985 AustriaAustria Vöcklabruck Traditional fire fighting competitions without age points FF Nidderau-Eichen HE
1985 AustriaAustria Vöcklabruck Traditional fire brigade competitions with age points FF Friedrichsthal SL
1993 GermanyGermany Berlin Fire fighting sport competitions - fire fighting attack FF Beselich-Obertiefenbach HE
1993 GermanyGermany Berlin Fire Brigade Sports Competitions - 4 × 100-meter fire brigade relay FF Berlin BE
1993 GermanyGermany Berlin Traditional fire fighting competitions without age points FF Bundenthal RP
1993 GermanyGermany Berlin Traditional fire brigade competitions with age points FF Asendorf II NS
1997 DenmarkDenmark Herning Traditional fire brigade competitions with age points (women) FF Asendorf 2nd NS
2001 FinlandFinland Kuopio Fire Brigade Sports Competitions - 4 × 100-meter fire brigade (women) FF Muldentalkreis SA
2013 FranceFrance Mulhouse Fire fighting sport competitions - fire fighting attack FF Team Lausitz BB
2017 AustriaAustria Villach Fire fighting sport competitions - fire fighting attack FF Märkisch-Oderland BB

These world championships have been held since 1961. In the beginning there were only the traditional fire brigade competitions.

The International Fire Brigade Sports Competitions have been held since 1973. Initially, only professional fire brigades (BF) were allowed to start in the sports competitions. From 1985 volunteer fire brigades (FF) were also approved. In 2001, women's groups joined this male domain.

literature

  • Rolf Schamberger: One for All - All for One. 150 years of the German Fire Brigade Association . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-018108-4 .
  • Christina Terberl: Actors of Disaster and Civil Protection in Germany In: H.-J. Lange, C. Gusy (Ed.): Cooperation in Disaster and Civil Protection , Studies on Internal Security 20, Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 17–63, ISBN 978-3-658-07150-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinary members of the DFV. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ World Fire Statistics Issue No. 24-2019. (PDF) Table 11: Personnel and equipment of state fire brigades in 2001–2017. World Fire Brigade Association CTIF, April 18, 2019, accessed on April 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Germany | CTIF - Comité technique international de prévention et d'extinction du Feu. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 2, 2017 ; accessed on September 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Fire Brigade Yearbook 2003/04 , German Fire Brigade Association, Bonn 2004, pp. 11-14.
  5. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : Fire protection week - seize opportunities . In: Florian Hessen 7–8 / 1989 . Munkelt Verlag, 1989, ISSN  0936-5370 , p. 1-3 .
  6. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : Fire brigade friendship between Obertiefenbach and the GDR . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2019 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2018, ISBN 3-927006-56-4 , p. 45-48 .
  7. ↑ The German Fire Brigade Museum has existed for 50 years. German Fire Brigade Association, press service, February 26, 2013, accessed on March 31, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Hartmut Ziebs will be the next DFV President. German Fire Brigade Association, press service, November 27, 2015, accessed on December 26, 2018 .
  9. ^ Resignation of DFV President Ziebs called for! Feuerwehr Magazin, November 12, 2019, accessed on November 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Controversy over Fire Brigade Association President Harmut Ziebs - five of his seven deputies oppose Ziebs. There are several reasons for this. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln - Mediathek, November 22, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Do right-wing populists undermine the fire brigade? AfD criticism scandal: Fire Brigade President Hartmut Ziebs resigns , merkur.de , December 8, 2019
  12. ↑ After threats: Hartmut Ziebs withdraws from Firefighters Association back , wp.de December 7, 2019
  13. ↑ Nils Sander: DFV crisis: More and more reasons are known , Feuerwehr-Magazin , December 14, 2019
  14. ↑ Michael Klöpper: After the crisis in the fire brigade association: DFV: Hartmut Ziebs declares his resignation , Feuerwehr-Magazin, December 14, 2019
  15. ↑ Membership page in the EBD. March 25, 2015, accessed March 31, 2016 .
  16. ^ Statutes of the German Fire Brigade Association. (PDF) November 7, 2009, accessed September 2, 2017 .
  17. ↑ https://www.feuerwehrverband.de/dfv/bundesgeschaeftsstelle/
  18. ^ German Bundestag: Current version of the public list on the registration of associations and their representatives . 29th August 2017.
  19. ^ Transparency Register - Search the register. Accessed September 2, 2017 .
  20. ↑ German Fire Brigade Association: What is skilled work? Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Furthermore, no bus driver's license is required for the fire brigade . January 17, 2017 ( feuerwehrverband.de [accessed September 2, 2017]).
  22. ↑ German Fire Brigade Association: Priorities. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  23. ^ Wilhelm Bohlmann: Fire Brigade Competitions - International and National Championships . W. Bohlmann, Rostock 2018.