Academy for crisis management, emergency planning and civil protection
The Academy for Crisis Management, Emergency Planning and Civil Protection (AKNZ), formerly the Academy for Emergency Planning and Civil Protection (AkNZ), is a training and further education institution in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate belonging to the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief .
This serves in particular for the theoretical and practical qualification of managers and teachers in civil protection and disaster control as well as the planning, implementation and evaluation of studies and research projects in this area. In addition, the AKNZ has a number of special facilities for training purposes.
tasks
The tasks include education and training, research and documentation, and consultation. They result in part from the Civil Protection Act; in addition, various offices and authorities have given her additional responsibilities.
A central task is the qualification of management and teaching staff in civil protection and disaster control through appropriate courses. In addition, the AKNZ is significantly involved in the evaluation of disasters and other major loss situations at national and international level as well as nationally and internationally published literature on the subject of civil protection and disaster control. Other important tasks are the implementation of research projects, studies and investigations on these topics as well as the organization and evaluation of exercises including the provision of the appropriate technology and infrastructure. The advisory aspects of the activities of the AKNZ include the implementation of events in the field of civil-military cooperation and participation in federal authorities, federal-state committees and EU bodies.
The seminar participants mainly include volunteer leaders, directors and teachers from the organizations involved in civil and disaster protection ( Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund , Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft , German Red Cross , fire brigades , Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe , Malteser Hilfsdienst) , Technical Relief Organization ), but also soldiers of the Bundeswehr who are supposed to perform tasks in the event of a disaster as part of civil-military cooperation. In addition, full-time employees from federal, state or municipal authorities, such as the lower and upper disaster control authorities, also take part in the courses, as do safety officers from hospitals and other employees of facilities that have special tasks in the event of a disaster or who are Disaster can be confronted with special problems.
Equipment and structure
The AKNZ has four guest houses with single rooms to accommodate up to 160 seminar or event participants, a lecture hall building with twelve lecture halls, a farm building with a cafeteria, café, restaurant and bowling alley as well as an administration building. At special facilities for training purposes there are, for example, exercise rooms for command staff with special technical equipment, a simulated rubble field and a former provisional guest house for evacuation exercises.
The academy is divided into five departments: Strategic Leadership and Management, Emergency Preparedness and Planning, Pedagogical Basics and Quality Management (Department IV.1), Administrative and Operational Leadership and Management (Department IV.2), International Training, Civil-Military Cooperation (Section IV.3), Science, Technology and Health (Section IV.4) and supplementary civil protection training, event management, service sector (Section IV.5).
The teaching staff for the training consists of approx. 30 full-time lecturers as well as approx. 100 lecturers and guest lecturers from various fields, including medicine, psychology, natural sciences, technology, journalism, pedagogy as well as political and administrative sciences.
history
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 42.2 " N , 7 ° 6 ′ 20.8" E
The AKNZ emerged from a number of training centers from various organizations. Its history thus largely reflects the development of civil protection and disaster control in Germany, which was characterized by multiple restructuring and realignments.
The historical starting point of the AKNZ is the "Federal School of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief", founded in Marienthal , a district of Ahrweiler in 1953. This functioned as the central training and further education facility for the then newly created THW. In addition, in 1960 the “Central Federal Training Center for Air Protection Aid Service” (ZAB) was set up in Marienthal to train the emergency services of the air raid rescue service that was established in 1957 . Despite their different origins and orientations, both institutions were organizationally connected to one another and were under a common director. In 1965, the THW Federal School and the ZAB were relocated to another location due to necessary expansions within the city of Ahrweiler. With the law on the expansion of disaster control passed in 1968, there was a fundamental restructuring of civil and disaster control and thus three years later the air protection service was integrated into disaster control. The ZAB was therefore merged with the THW federal school and the THW school in Moers to form the federal disaster control school .
In 1974, KSB was also assigned the “Federal School of the Federal Association for Self-Protection ” (BVS Federal School), which was founded in Waldbröl in 1956, as the “Self-Protection Teaching Area”. However, with regard to her teaching assignment, she remained independent until the BVS was dissolved on December 31, 1996. In 1996, the "Academy for Civil Defense" (AkzV) founded in Bonn in 1966, the central teaching and research facility of the federal government in the field of civil defense, was moved to Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and merged with KSB. At the end of 1996 these two institutions and the former BVS federal school became the “Academy for Emergency Planning and Civil Protection” (AkNZ), which was given its current name in 2002. The AKNZ was organizationally assigned to the Federal Office for Civil Protection, which was founded in 1958 as the "Federal Office for Civil Protection" and was renamed in 1974.
As a result of the upheaval in the German Democratic Republic , the school was set up as an initial reception center on October 3, 1989 , where 750 people were temporarily accommodated.
As part of the transformation of the BZS into the Central Office for Civil Protection of the Federal Administration Office in 2001, the AKNZ was integrated into the Federal Administration Office. With the establishment of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief in 2004, the AKNZ became part of the newly created Federal Office. The AKNZ is today the central training and further education institution of the federal government in the area of civil protection . In this function, in addition to supporting the federal government in the area of civil protection, it primarily serves to help the states in fulfilling their tasks arising from disaster control, as well as the future development of the two areas of civil and disaster control into an integrated subject area of civil protection. In the field of training, the offer is currently around 500 seminars a year with around 12,000 participants and an average seminar duration of three days.
literature
- 50 years of civil protection training. The way to the academy for crisis management, emergency planning and civil protection. Published by the AKNZ of the Federal Administration Office - Central Office for Civil Protection, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 2003
- Civil protection. Magazine for civil and disaster protection. Quarterly magazine published by the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (available online as a PDF version )
