Delmenhorst fire brigade

Delmenhorst fire brigade
Office of the City of Delmenhorst
Fire station Delmenhorst
Professional fire brigade
Founding year:	2012
Locations:	1
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year:	1895
Departments:	3
Active members:	200
Youth fire brigade
Founding year:	1992
Groups:	3
Members:	60
www.feuerwehr-delmenhorst.de

The Delmenhorst fire brigade is a fire brigade from the independent city of Delmenhorst and consists of a professional fire brigade and a volunteer fire brigade with three locations.

history

In 1895 the volunteer gymnast fire brigade was founded out of the Delmenhorst gymnastics club in order to be able to cope with the increasing fire load that resulted from economic development. In 1924, the city transferred the ambulance to the Delmenhorst volunteer fire brigade. In 1928, the full-time guard duty (HW) was created through the appointment of Walter Albrecht. He was a car mechanic and already in the volunteer fire brigade equipment master and patient transporter. He was also responsible for guard and ambulance services. With this one-man operation, the full-time guard duty was established. In 1946 the Delmenhorst fire brigade took over the transport of the sick for the whole of the Oldenburg region on the basis of a regulation from the Oldenburg State Ministry. As a result, more firefighters were hired.

Former fire station at the water tower

The ambulance drivers were still municipal employees in the 1950s and later became employees. At the same time, the HW was incorporated into the city administration. In the event of a fire, the HW occupied the first fire engine, which was then housed in the fire station at Am Wasserturm . In 1966 Albrecht retired from active service as chief fire chief because he had reached the prescribed age limit. At that time there were already 17 firefighters employed. In 1972 more firefighters were hired as more tasks were added and the weekly working time was reduced from 72 to 56. Nevertheless, it was still only possible to deploy 2 to 3 firefighters to fire operations. In addition, the release time was delayed because there was not enough space for all equipment and vehicles in the fire station at the water tower. In 1974, due to space problems, the current fire station at Rudolf-Königer-Strasse 35 was moved into, which was previously a pressed cork factory and was rebuilt. In addition, the Fire Brigade Technical Center (FTZ) started its service there.

In 1980 the city's fire protection office (Amt 37) became independent and Karlheinz Reibold became its head. In 1981 he also became city fire chief and took over the overall management of the fire brigade. This ensured that more and more professionalism moved in. Further staff were hired and trained according to the guidelines of the professional fire services. In addition, all fire fighters in the rescue service have been trained as paramedics. At that time there were 32 employees. In 1988 the ambulance vehicle was put into service, which was manned by an emergency doctor and a firefighter trained as paramedics . The workforce at that time was 39 employees.

In 1990 the number of operations rose to 7,747 and were no longer manageable by the 42 employees at HW. That is why the volunteer fire brigade was also alerted every time they were deployed and were supposed to manned the guard. However, this led to a dispute between employee representatives and the city ​​administration . In the same year the restructuring of the HW followed after the supervisory authority of the Weser-Ems district government intervened. Thus the first employees, like in professional fire brigades, became fire officers. In 1992 it was stipulated that an extinguishing squadron (1/5/6) was to be kept available at all times for fire, emergency and environmental operations, which were then deployed in the event of an alarm with an emergency group vehicle (HLF) and a turntable ladder (DLK). It was determined in 1991 that 14 operational functions of the HW are manned around the clock. This was made possible through further recruitment and the workforce grew to 57 fire service officers. The rescue service (2 ambulances (RTW), 1 emergency doctor vehicle (NEF)) was manned by the HW around the clock. In 1999 a renovation concept for the administration, the control center and the vehicle hall was commissioned and in 2000 the new building was put into operation. On October 4, 2011, a majority of the city council decided to convert the full-time guard duty into a professional fire brigade, which only resulted in a name change. Since 2012 the Delmenhorst professional fire brigade has been the 11th professional fire brigade in Lower Saxony and the 105th professional fire brigade nationwide.

Calls

The professional fire brigade and the voluntary fire brigades are deployed to around 400 fire missions, around 600 aid missions and 14,000 rescue service missions every year.

City fire chief

List of all city fire officers or heads of the full-time guard duty or professional fire brigade:

Years of office	Surname
1928-1966	Walter Albrecht
1966-1980	NN
1980-1990	Karlheinz Reibold
1990-2008	Manfred Huebner
2008–2012	Thomas Simon
2012-2018	Dieter Speckels
since 2012	Thomas Stalinski (Head of Professional Fire Brigade)
since 2018	Klaus Fischer (Acting City Fire Chief)

112: Fire brigade in action

→ Main article : 112: Fire brigade in action

The Delmenhorst fire brigade is one of three fire brigades that were accompanied by a camera team during their operations for the first two seasons of the DMAX series 112: Fire brigade in action .

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Delmenhorst fire brigade , accessed on March 5, 2019
3. ↑ Delmenhorst Fire Brigade , accessed on March 5, 2019
4. ↑ 112: Fire brigade in action , on DMAX.de, accessed on March 8, 2019

Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 55.2 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 10.9 ″  E