Braunschweig fire department

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Braunschweig fire department
Braunschweig coat of arms Office of the city of Braunschweig
Brunswick fire station in 2006
Brunswick fire station in 2006
Professional fire brigade
Founding year: 1874
Locations: 2
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year: 1862
Departments: 30th
Youth fire brigade
Groups: 30th
Children's fire brigade
Groups: 21st

The professional fire brigade Braunschweig emerged from the volunteer fire brigades founded in 1874 and today unites the areas of fire brigade, rescue service and disaster control under one roof.

Organizationally, it is managed as department 37 of the city of Braunschweig, which is divided into the five departments 37.1 Operations, 37.2 Planning hazard prevention, 37.3 Training and technology, 37.4 Integrated regional control center BS / PE / WF and 37.0 Administration and responsibility for the rescue service. In addition to the department head, there are four staff positions: 37th SSB as a special clerk, 37th ALRD as medical director of the rescue service, 37th PSD as fire brigade chaplain and 37th ÖPR, the local staff council. It has been headed by Chief Fire Director Torge Malchau since September 1, 2017.

The fire department is divided into the professional fire department and the voluntary fire department, the latter being one of the most powerful volunteer fire departments in terms of personnel and vehicle technology in cities with professional fire departments. The Braunschweig fire brigade maintains a total of two professional fire brigades (main station, south fire station) and 30 local fire brigades in the city. In addition to the professional fire brigade, the four aid organizations Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB), German Red Cross (DRK), Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (JUH) and Malteser Hilfsdienst (MHD) are active in the field of rescue services . In the area of ​​disaster control, the so-called disaster control center is also located on the premises of the volunteer fire brigade downtown . In the field of crisis intervention , the Braunschweig fire brigade provides functional emergency pastoral care .

In 2017, an expert opinion on the update of the fire service requirements plan was published and decided by politicians. Together with a report on the BF's organizational investigation, there are several measures that are to be implemented in order to increase the degree of protection target achievement based on the resolution of the Council of the City of Braunschweig on November 7, 2017:

  1. Expansion and dynamization of traffic control ("fire service traffic lights")
  2. The fire brigade's emergency fire brigade vehicles will be staffed with 6 instead of 5 emergency services in the future
  3. Creation of 19 additional posts to the 2018 establishment plan
  4. Creation of the legal planning and real estate prerequisites for the construction of two fire stations in the south-west and north of the city
  5. Construction of a fire station for the Timmerlah local fire department
  6. Revision of the alarm and release regulations for the volunteer fire brigade
  7. Increase in funding in the investment program

history

Old fire station in Münzstrasse (right), demolished in 1954
Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter, "Father of the Brunswick Fire Brigade".

The origins of the Braunschweig fire brigade go back to the Braunschweig rescue association , which planned in 1820 to deal with emergency situations such as B. Fires to volunteer. In 1832 a “ fire fighting club ” was founded, followed in 1849 by the “Turner Rescue Team” and in 1862 by the “Voluntary Turner Fire Brigade ”. On August 1, 1875, the city council of Braunschweig decided to employ full-time firefighters for the first time. The first fire station in which these men found their accommodation was in the city center at Ruhfäutchenplatz. On December 10, 1882, the neo-Gothic new building, designed by the City Building Councilor Winter , was put into operation just a few hundred meters away in Münzstrasse (where C&A is today). In 1896, the Braunschweig professional fire brigade was also given responsibility for transporting the ambulance. In 1908, with the skeptical accompaniment of fire extinguishing experts at the time, the Braunschweig fire brigade put the world's first automobile fire engine with combustion vehicles (all on Büssing vehicles) into service. In this tradition, at least all MAN vehicles of the Braunschweig fire brigade still have an additional Büssing logo on the front. After the Second World War , on November 19, 1954, the building complex, which is still in use today, in Feuerwehrstrasse in the northern ring area, was used as the main fire station. A contract concluded in 1977 between the professional fire brigade and the aid organizations ASB and DRK, which were already involved in the rescue service at that time, was unique in Germany, which regulated the joint perception of the rescue service under the coordination of an integrated control center and at the time served as a model for the Federal Republic.

Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter

The former tobacco manufacturer Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter (1821–1890) is known as the "father of the Brunswick fire brigades" . From 1840 he was a member of the rescue association and from 1855 its chief leader. In 1862 he founded the "Turner Fire Brigade Braunschweig". From 1865 Reuter was the commander of the city’s fire department. In 1870 he became the first chairman of the newly founded "Braunschweigische Landesfeuerwehr-Verband". In 1874, Reuter was active as the initiator of the “Law on Fire Relief” ; it was valid until 1938. In addition, he was chairman of the German Fire Brigade Committee and in 1875 he was responsible for founding the Braunschweig professional fire brigade, which initially consisted of 12 firefighters.

Professional fire brigade

The professional fire brigade operates two fire and rescue stations and two other rescue stations in the Braunschweig area . The training center is located on Naumburgstrasse.

Main fire station

The main fire station at Feuerwehrstrasse 1 has existed since 1954 after the former Münzstrasse location in the city center had to be abandoned for tactical reasons. With the takeover of the very lucrative site by C&A, the clothing store was able to participate significantly in the financing of what was then the most modern fire and rescue station in Europe. Three buildings of the sewage pumping station formerly erected in the open field in front of the city were integrated into the guard area. The halls of the large pump building now serve as a storage hall for secondary emergency equipment, and a false ceiling has been drawn into the large hall for the large classroom.

In addition to units for fire protection , technical assistance and the rescue service, the site houses the administration, the Integrated Regional Control Center (IRLS) Braunschweig-Peine-Wolfenbüttel, the clothing store, training rooms, workshops and three terraced houses used as official apartments.

A fire fighting and arming train and most of the special vehicles of the professional fire brigade are stationed at the main fire station.

A new command and situation center including the integrated regional control center BS / PE / WF is currently being built opposite the main fire station. Completion is planned for 2021.

Fire station south

The south fire station has existed since 2001 and is housed on a former barracks site.

A fire fighting train and other vehicles from the professional fire brigade and the ABC train are housed at the fire station south . In addition, the respiratory protection and hose workshops are located here in the fire service center .

training centre

In 2017, the training center of the Braunschweig fire brigade went into operation. It is located in a former barracks building on Naumburgstrasse. In the training center, the fire-fighting career training for the fire supervisor takes place.

In addition, the training center is a branch of the emergency medical school of the Göttingen professional fire brigade. In cooperation with the BF Göttingen, the rescue service training (38-week course) is carried out as part of the career training. Candidates from the surrounding professional fire departments Wolfsburg, Salzgitter and Hildesheim also regularly take part in this rescue service training. This training enables the entry into the 2nd year of the emergency paramedic training after the career examination.

The training center comprises two lecture halls, a seminar room, the trainers' office workstations as well as social rooms and changing areas.

In the evenings and on the weekends, the training center is used to train volunteers.

Until the completion of the management and situation center (FLZ) in the Feuerwehrstrasse opposite the main fire station, the workplaces for preventive fire protection will also be located in the Naumburgstrasse property.

Volunteer firefighter

The volunteer fire brigade consists of 30 local fire brigades, which are organizationally divided into three operational sections. All 30 local fire departments have youth departments , 21 local fire departments have children's fire departments . There are also two music trains .

The volunteer fire brigade provides 10 specialized trains with different operational focuses. In addition, the ABC train is manned by the volunteer fire brigade.

The volunteer fire brigade is headed by the city fire chief Ingo Schönbach.

Plant fire brigades

There are three works fire brigades in Braunschweig : the part-time of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the full-time and part-time part of the Volkswagen plant in Braunschweig and the works fire department of the Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport .

Ambulance service

According to the NRettDG, the city of Braunschweig is responsible for the emergency services of the city of Braunschweig. The Braunschweig professional fire brigade has been entrusted with the implementation and organization of the rescue service since 1896. In addition to the professional fire brigade, the four aid organizations Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe and Malteser Hilfsdienst are now responsible for carrying out the rescue service. Two emergency medical vehicles (NEF) and eight ambulances are available around the clock in Braunschweig . The NEF are staffed by specially qualified paramedics from the professional fire brigade (NEF-RA), while the emergency doctors largely come from the anesthesia department and the trauma surgery clinic of the Braunschweig Municipal Hospital . One NEF is stationed at the clinic at Holwedestrasse, the second at the Salzdahlumer Strasse location. At a total of 10 ambulance stations in Braunschweig, up to seven additional ambulances and 13 ambulances are available in different shifts as required. On-call services exist for the chief emergency doctor (LNA) and the organizational head of the rescue service (OrgL). For many years there has been a medical director of the rescue service in the Braunschweig rescue service. a. is responsible for the creation and approval of the treatment algorithms introduced in Braunschweig and the regular emergency competence certification of all rescue personnel. The treatment algorithms are binding for the non-medical rescue service personnel and also regulate the measures of emergency competence. All employees of the Braunschweig rescue service are obliged to attend annual training courses on the subjects of treatment algorithms, emergency skills and resuscitation. A concept for coping with mass casualties of injured persons (MANV) has existed in Braunschweig since 1993, in which all organizations involved in the rescue service are integrated with their voluntary and full-time employees. Even today there are contracts with surrounding local authorities to ensure a local emergency management service for their areas of responsibility. As part of an amendment to the DA-MANV, which has been ongoing since the end of 2011, these contracts are supplemented by Ü-MANV units for rapid mutual support based on the NRW model. With rapid response groups, all aid organizations involved in the regular rescue service are also involved in the extended rescue service. In addition to the public rescue service, a company provides private-sector services in qualified ambulance transport.

particularities

Integrated regional control center

At the Braunschweig fire brigade, the fire and rescue control centers of the Peine and Wolfenbüttel districts as well as the independent city of Braunschweig have been merged into an integrated regional control center (IRLS). The IRLS takes on the tasks of the fire brigade control center, the rescue control center and the reporting head for disaster control for the three regional authorities. The IRLS staff consists of civil servants and salaried employees of the Braunschweig professional fire brigade and the aid organizations involved. Up to nine workplaces are available in the IRLS. By merging the individual control centers into a regional control center, costs were saved and tactical advantages were achieved, especially in the case of cross-regional fire and rescue services.

Airport fire brigade

Until October 16, 2017, the professional fire brigade ensured fire protection at Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport with three functions and support for the plant fire brigade . This task is performed today by the plant fire brigade. The professional fire brigade used the freed personnel to increase the crew strength of the HLF (requirement from the fire brigade requirement plan).

Well-known firefighters

  • Rudolf Prescher , last senior fire chief, retired in 1972, together with numerous other firefighters from the city and the district of Braunschweig and the surrounding cities, in the early morning hours of October 15, 1944, through his work and the tactics of a “water lane “Made a significant contribution to protecting approx. 23,000 people, mainly trapped in bunkers, from certain death by heat or asphyxiation. He documented his impressions in the bombing war in his book Der Rote Hahn über Braunschweig. Air raid protection measures and aerial warfare events in the city of Braunschweig 1927 to 1945, published in 1955 and reissued in 1994 by Pfannkuch Verlag.

Large-scale operations

Burning Braunschweig between 02:00 and 03:00 in the early morning of October 15, 1944 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Braunschweig Fire Brigade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1874 - the birth of the volunteer fire brigades. In: braunschweig.de, accessed on September 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ About us. In: braunschweig.de. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Fire service requirements plan . ( braunschweig.de [accessed on February 5, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Template - 17-04046 - Fire brigade requirements plan of the Braunschweig fire brigade and organizational investigation of the professional fire brigade. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Template - 17-05566 - Implementation of the report for updating the fire service requirements plan. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  6. ^ Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 71 .
  7. ↑ Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 3: Outside the city ring. Braunschweig 2001, p. 74.
  8. ^ Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 110 .
  9. ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung (ed.): The bomb night. The air war 60 years ago. Braunschweig 2004, p. 56 f.
  10. ↑ A pile-up with 80 injured. In: süddeutsche.de, July 20, 2009.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 33.8 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 50.1 ″  E