Mountain Rescue Bavaria

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Mountain Rescue Bavaria

Emblem of the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service
State level Bavaria
position Mountain Rescue
legal form Public corporation (as an organizational unit of the BRK)
founding 1920
Headquarters Bad Tölz
Authority management Otto Möslang (Chairman)

Klaus Schädler (Managing Director - advisory)

Servants 5000 voluntary + 33 full-time
Budget volume around 11.5 million euros (2018)
Web presence www.bergwacht-bayern.org
Bergwacht Kochel am See
Rescue operation in the giant thing shaft cave with members of the Bavarian mountain rescue service (in red / blue)

The Bavarian Mountain Rescue , the mountain rescue organization in the Bavarian Alps and in the Bavarian uplands . It is part of the Bavarian Red Cross , a public corporation . The chairmen of Bergwacht Bayern are Otto Möslang, Susanna Merkl and Thomas Lobensteiner. The mountain rescue service is divided into 36 individual mountain rescue areas and 7 mountain rescue regions, with a total of 111 mountain rescue teams on call. It does around 12,000 missions a year and has 5,000 volunteers. The Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service is based in Bad Tölz .

history

In 1898 the “Alpine Rescue Committee” was founded in Munich under the umbrella of the Alpine Club, the starting point for organized mountain rescue in the eastern Alpine region. In the years that followed, Alpine rescue centers were set up from the Allgäu to Berchtesgaden under the umbrella of the German and Austrian Alpine Association, supported by the local sections. Also initiated by sections of the Alpine Club, the mountain rescue service was founded in 1920 as a "customs and nature protection watch". In the same year, other local associations were founded as mountain rescue services in Mittenwald, Bad Tölz and Wolfratshausen. In the years before 1920 units of the Red Cross were on the road as "mountain accident service". These units focused on areas where skiing spread. The activity was limited to individual areas. In 1923, the mountain rescue service also took over the task of the medical service and developed into a comprehensive rescue service for the Bavarian Alps and low mountain ranges under the umbrella of the Alpine Association as the German Mountain Rescue Service. In 1945 the German Alpine Association was banned as a National Socialist organization. The mountain rescue service was then incorporated into the Bavarian Red Cross as a special formation.

The first avalanche dog course was introduced in 1952. The first helicopter exercises for the mountain rescue service took place in 1956 in the Tegernsee valley. The admission of women to the mountain rescue failed in 1989 because of the veto of the state committee, meanwhile the mountain rescue training for women on standby is open.

Mountain Rescue Center for Safety and Training

The Bergwacht Center for Safety and Training (BW-ZSA) is located in Bad Tölz and is operated by the Bergwacht Bayern Foundation - Bergwacht Foundation. This is where the basic and advanced training of the mountain rescue forces as well as practical training is carried out centrally. Furthermore, rescue techniques are developed and training documents are created. A training facility for technical air rescue has been located here since 2009. The centerpiece is the self-developed helicopter simulation system . On a discarded MBB / Kawasaki BK 117 , which is hanging on a crane bridge in a hall, the emergency services of the mountain rescue service and other aid organizations are trained to work with helicopters. The world's first simulation system of this type offers the advantage that training on real helicopters can be largely dispensed with, thus keeping costs low and at the same time contributing to environmental protection. Since 2010, the BW-ZSA has also had a simulation system for the evacuation of cable cars. Some exercises take place together with other rescue and safety organizations.

After a two-year renovation phase, the BW-ZSA was reopened in April 2016. A second helicopter cabin was installed, with which different types of helicopters can be simulated. The cabin, which is based on a Super Puma , was suspended from a second, additional crane bridge. In addition, a house, a floodable plunge pool with corridors for cave rescue and a climbing wall were built to expand the training possibilities. This means that other rescue organizations such as the water rescue service and fire brigade as well as emergency and special forces of the police and armed forces can train in the BW-ZSA. In the also newly built cold chamber, emergency services can train at temperatures as low as minus 20 ° C and test equipment. There is also a medical emergency room, which is similar to an emergency room .

structure

Pinzgauer of the mountain rescue service from Mittenwald

Bergwacht Bayern is divided into 7 mountain rescue regions with 116 mountain rescue teams and a total of 36 mountain rescue areas. The regions are:

The regions are led by regional managers.

education

In order to become an active member of the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service, a two to five-year training course as a mountain rescue service candidate must be completed. After basic training with a summer and winter part, these must each be passed with an aptitude test. In these u. a. the skills mountaineering , rock climbing , skiing , ski mountaineering and physical performance tested. This is followed by the actual basic training, which is divided into five subject areas:

  • Winter: u. a. Mountain rescue with Akja , avalanche rescue
  • Emergency medicine
  • Air and cable car rescue
  • Summer: u. a. different types of alpine mountain rescue
  • natural reserve

Each area is concluded with an examination with a theoretical and practical component. The mountain security guard is only an active member of the rescue team after successfully completing the training. The training content is then regularly practiced and deepened.

Qualifications

After successful training as an active worker, the following additional qualifications can be acquired:

  • Supplementary crew member and instructed air rescue worker
  • Mountain Rescue Operations Manager
  • Mountain rescue specialist instructor
  • Mountain Rescue Specialist:
    • Canyon rescue specialist
    • Cave rescue specialist
    • Rescue dog handler specialist
    • LKLD specialist (localization, communication, situation display, documentation)
    • Specialist in press / public relations
  • Mountain rescue service specialist advisor crisis intervention / stress management
  • Mountain rescue paramedic
  • Mountain rescue emergency doctor

Web links

Commons : Bergwacht Bayern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Under the green cross: Chronicle of the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ www.bergwacht-bayern.org About us> State management and members of the state committee. Accessed June 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ www.bergwacht-bayern.org About us> State management and members of the state committee. Accessed September 27, 2017.
  4. ↑ www.bergwacht-bayern.org The Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service. Accessed September 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ www.bergwacht-bayern.org The Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service. Accessed September 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ Organization. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ BRK, Bavarian Red Cross - District Association Berchtesgadener Land - November 26th, 2018: Thomas Lobensteiner is the new deputy head of the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  8. ↑ www.bw-zsa.org (PDF; 257 kB).
  9. ↑ Bergwacht Bayern: Expert group for alpine accidents (GAK) informs itself about the four million euro expansion of the Bergwacht Center for Safety and Training (ZSA). Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  10. ^ Bergwacht ZSA: New start in the Bergwacht center. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  11. ^ Bergwacht Bayern - Regions , accessed on April 17, 2017.
  12. ^ Bergwacht Bayern: Become a member. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  13. ↑ www.bw-zsa.org Qualifications. Accessed March 12, 2012.