Fire department magazine

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Fire department magazine

description German trade journal
Area of ​​Expertise Fire brigade, fire protection and security
language German
publishing company Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)
Headquarters Bremen
First edition 1983
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 51,021 copies
( IVW  Q1 / 2016)
Widespread edition 51,355 copies
( IVW  Q1 / 2016)
Editor-in-chief Jan-Erik Hegemann
Web link www.feuerwehrmagazin.de
ISSN (print) 0943-027X

The Feuerwehr-Magazin is a monthly trade journal for fire brigades , fire protection and hazard prevention in the entire German-speaking area, founded in Bremen in 1983 . The readership includes volunteer and full-time firefighters as well as many blue light fans . The first edition appeared in December 1983. From the beginning, the fire department magazine was offered by subscription and in stores. In December 1995, the editorial team first published the sister title Rettungs-Magazin (every two months). Both titles have been published by the Ebner Media Group (Ulm) since January 1, 1996. The editorial office is still Bremen.

Content

Every issue of the fire department magazine reports on new fire engines, unusual missions, topics from the youth fire department, news from the brigades, new equipment and technology. The quiz, the fire protection sin of the month, a cartoon and TV tips are an integral part of the booklet. One or two photo reports about individual fire departments from home and abroad with a length of up to eleven pages are published every month. The editorial team regularly reports on legal issues for fire fighters and tests target group-relevant devices. Atypical for a special interest title: All technical terms are explained, a high proportion of images and abbreviations are largely avoided. "We want to make the fire brigade understandable to people outside the industry," said the long-time editor-in-chief Jan Gaede, the motto of the fire brigade magazine.

editorial staff

The editorial team consists of 14 employees in Bremen. Almost all editors are active in a volunteer fire brigade . The fire department magazine has its own layout department. Specialist authors, fire service press officers and journalists from the daily press work as freelancers for the fire department magazine.

Special issues

The fire department magazine has been issuing special issues since 1998. Every three years a vehicle special is published with information on hundreds of new fire brigade standard vehicles, loading lists and technical data. Every three to four years, catalogs summarize the most important product innovations in the industry.

Training literature was added as a third special issue series in 2006. Issues published so far:

  • "Fire fighting with foam"
  • "Behavior in an internal attack"
  • "Technical assistance after car accidents"
  • "Technical assistance after truck accidents"
  • "Operating principles for aerial rescue vehicles "
  • "Renewable energy"
  • "Correct procedure for forest and wild fires"
  • "Use under respiratory protection"
  • "Correct procedure in stormy weather"
  • "Correct procedure for water rescue"
  • "Around the fire station"

Derivatives

In 1995, the rescue service and aid organizations division was spun off from the fire department magazine into the rescue magazine. The magazine is part of the joint editorial team; the internal editorial assistance and layout services use both titles together. Since January 2009, the editorial staff of the fire brigade magazine has been creating its membership magazine for the Association for the Promotion of German Fire Protection (vfdb for short). The St. Florian , the membership magazine of the Oldenburg Fire Brigade Association, has also been in existence in Bremen since mid-2016 .

reader

The readers of the fire department magazine are 95 percent male. The majority belong to a fire brigade themselves.

Edition

The sold circulation of the fire department magazine is around 51,000 copies ( IVW 1st quarter 2016) with just over 28,000 subscribers. Since January 2011, the fire department magazine has also been available as a digital edition.

Award

In May 2017, the Association for the Promotion of German Fire Protection (vfdb) awarded the fire brigade magazine the “Safety made in Germany” seal.

Competitions

In 2016/2017 the fire department magazine organized the competition “The Golden Collectible” for the first time, in which special ideas for finding and retaining members among the volunteer fire departments were awarded. From 2018/2019 the “Golden Florian” competition took place for the first time, in which image / advertising videos of the fire brigades are awarded.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feuerwehr-Magazin ivw.eu, accessed on July 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Jan-Erik Hegemann: Safety Made in Germany: Award for fire service magazine. In: feuerwehrmagazin.de. Ebner Verlag, May 22, 2017, accessed on July 3, 2017 (German).