Austrian rescue dog brigade
| ÖRHB (Austrian Rescue Dog Brigade ) |
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| purpose | private emergency organization |
| Chair: | Helmuth Gruber (President since 1999) |
| Establishment date: | 1966 |
| Number of members: | approx. 700 (2008) |
| Seat : | Vienna |
| Website: | www.oerhb.at |
The Austrian Rescue Dog Brigade (ÖRHB) is a private rescue organization that searches for buried, injured or lost people with rescue dogs and provides first aid . She is also involved in disaster relief at home and abroad.
The ÖRHB currently (2008) has more than 700 voluntary rescue dog handlers and helpers, who are organized in 44 deployment teams and a technical team.
The members also include doctors , veterinarians , paramedics , radio operators and personnel to rescue the victims.
The Austrian rescue dog brigade is an association body of the canine umbrella organizations Austrian Cynologists Association and Fédération Cynologique Internationale .
history
The ÖRHB was founded in 1966 in Café Landtmann in Vienna . The idea of training rescue dogs took off quickly. In the past four decades, regional groups with rescue dog teams have been established in all Austrian federal states .
In 1965 the “Nederlandse Reddingshonden Brigade” in Amsterdam sent an inquiry to the Austrian Embassy in the Netherlands about the extent to which a rescue dog organization also existed in Austria. Ing.Richard Radakovic was active as an active dog handler at this time, mainly dealing with avalanche work. He discusses with other dog handlers, the idea taking on more distinct forms. On February 12, 1966 the time had come: The five dog handlers Ing. Richard Radakovic, Hugo Matecha, Karl Böhm, Karl Stift and Oberinsp. Ludwig Joksch found the "Austrian Rescue Dog Brigade". The non-prohibition is confirmed to the association on March 29, 1966. The first praesidium:
- President: Ing.Richard Radakovic
- Secretary: Karl Stift
- Financial advisor: Hugo Matecha
- Training manager: Adolf Mucha
As early as 1967 there were contacts with a rescue dog organization in what was then the CSSR. The Austrian civil defense is also extremely cooperative. Also in 1967, the well-deserved Styrian dog handler Hannes Schneider was appointed head of "Section 3a - Training and Regulations, Examination". It is thanks to his active cooperation that the Styrian regional group is formed in the same year and he is responsible for it himself. The Lower Austria regional group was also established in 1967 - initially under the leadership of Karl Böhm, who was soon replaced by the new regional manager, Anton Gabmayer.
In 1969 the Upper Austria regional group was founded with regional manager Matthäus Schatzl, who was followed shortly after by Benno Gumpinger. In 1970 the regional group of Carinthia was formed with regional manager Robert Winkler and in the same year the regional group of Tyrol was established under the leadership of Fritz Hahndl. The Salzburg regional group was also constituted in 1970 with regional director Anton Erasimus. President Radakovic travels to the USA to exchange experiences with the “Search and Rescue Dogs Association” in Seattle and to establish contact with the “Federal Civil Defense Administration” in Washington. On July 2, 1970, the IFRA (International Federation of Rescue Dogs Association) was founded in New York between the “Austrian Rescue Dog Brigade” and the “Search and Rescue Dogs Association”. The aim of this umbrella association was the worldwide involvement of all rescue dog organizations.
The Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection in Bern has expressed its interest in the ÖRHB, as has the Federal Office for Civil Protection in Bonn and the Association of Rescue Dogs in Baden-Württemberg. The missing regional groups now follow in quick succession: 1981 Burgenland regional group with country manager Ernst Böhm. She already had seven missions in the first year! In 1984 the Vienna-Lower Austria regional group with Franz Dörfler became the regional head of the Vienna-Lower Austria alarm department. The last to come into being in 1986 was the Vorarlberg regional group, the first regional manager being Ewald Mattivi. In 1990 he joined the ÖKV (Austrian Cynologist Association) and the FCI (Federation Cynologique Internationale).
organization
The Austrian Rescue Dog Brigade is divided into regional groups (associations) in the individual federal states. Each state group is led and directed by a state management under the specifications of the federal management. The Presidium, which makes nationwide decisions, is also composed of the federal management and the state management.
President of the ÖRHB
- Ing.Richard Radakovic, 1966 to 1988
- Herbert Thallmayer, 1988 to 1989
- Heinrich Fischer, 1989
- Dr. Wolfgang Zörner, 1989 to 1996
- Albert Gally, 1996 to 1999
- Helmuth Gruber 1999 until today
National groups
The ÖRHB is organized as an association under private law and has branch associations - known as regional groups - in the federal states, which in some federal states are also recognized as emergency organizations by decision of the respective state government.
- Provincial group of Styria
- Regional group Carinthia
- Upper Austria regional group
- Lower Austria regional group
- Burgenland regional group
- Regional group Tyrol / Vorarlberg
- Regional group Vienna
- Regional group Salzburg
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dog whisperer who went through hell Kronenzeitung of February 24, 2019
- ↑ Emergency organizations of the state of Styria rescue dogs / disaster control and state defense of Styria ".
- ↑ About the ÖRHB founding history of the ÖRHB on the website of the ÖRHB Staffel Korneuburg "
- ↑ Interview with Anton Gabmayer Film of the Lower Austria Regional Group on "50 Years Lower Austria Regional Group".
- ^ Friedrich Brettner: Dogs in action. KRAL-Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-99024-760-0
- ↑ Festschrift "50 Years of the Austrian Rescue Dog Brigade "
- ^ Training associations of the Austrian Cynologist Association
- ^ Statutes of the Austrian Rescue Dog Brigade