German fire brigade union
| German Fire Brigade Union (DFeuG) |
|
|---|---|
| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 2011 |
| Seat | Solingen |
| purpose | labor union |
| Chair | Siegfried Maier |
| Website | www.dfeug.de |
The German Fire Brigade Union (DFeuG) is a German union that advocates the interests of fire fighters. It represents members of professional, full-time, works, company and airport fire brigades, as well as employees in the rescue service who are employed by municipal employers.
history
The DFeuG was founded on May 1st, 2011 in Solingen . It emerged from the interest representation of the fire brigade e. V. IdFw, whose managing director was the Solingen lawyer Uwe Scherf. The federal office is in Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia).
Structure / classification
The DFeuG currently (as of June 2018) has members in all federal states and the thirteen state groups with state boards listed below. The federal executive board forms the executive board together with the respective state chairmen.
| National group | Chairperson |
|---|---|
| Bavaria | Siegfried Maier, Munich |
| Baden-Württemberg | Yves Pasquini, Leinfelden-Echterdingen |
| Berlin-Brandenburg | Micha Quäker, Berlin |
| Bremen | Axel Seemann, Bremen |
| Hamburg | Daniel Dahlke, Hamburg |
| Hesse | Sven Ziegler, Wiesbaden |
| Lower Saxony | Harald Steinmann, Wolfsburg |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | Dirk Viertelhaus, Remscheid |
| Saarland-Palatinate | Dirk Wilhelm, Saarbrücken |
| Saxony | Uwe Knoll, Leipzig |
| Schleswig-Holstein | Robert Pohl, Brunsbüttel |
| Thuringia | Andreas Kacsur, Mulhouse |
Positions / tasks
The main goals of the German Fire Brigade Union are to participate in ensuring non-police security, as well as safeguarding and pursuing the professional, social and collective interests of its members.
Other positions of union activity are as follows:
- Maintaining or reducing the current safety standards for colleagues and the population, e.g. B. Aid period
- Nationwide implementation of the EU working time directive for fire brigades
- Socially fair, flat-rate cost containment
- Improvement of contacts with politics and administration
- Leave working life for firefighters at 60 years
- Creation of a model for partial retirement from 55 years
- Nationwide introduction of its own fire service career
- Nationwide cooperation with all fire departments
- Expand nationwide networks
- Improvements in working conditions for firefighters
- Pensionable allowances
To this end, it takes part in staff council elections and collective bargaining and serves as specialist advice to political bodies.
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The DFeuG is in close cooperation with other trade unions, interest groups and professional associations. The DFeuG acts as a sponsor of fire-fighting sporting events.