Belt knife

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Belt knife, combined with an emergency hammer. A pencil to compare the size.

The belt knife is a tool with a blade that is used to quickly and safely free people from a seat belt .

There are recommendations for drivers to carry emergency hammers and belt knives with them in order to be able to free themselves or others quickly in the event of a road traffic accident . The belt knife is also used by the fire brigade in the field of technical assistance .

Types

Various types of belt knives are used. An older type looks similar to a conventional kitchen knife , but there is a plastic attachment at the tip of the knife, which is intended to prevent stab wounds.

More modern belt knives are blades that are completely embedded in a plastic housing. This case has a slot into which the strap is inserted and cut through. Combinations with an emergency hammer are also available in stores.

Belt knives can also be part of a rescue knife and thus have an additional fold-out blade.

Legal situation in Germany

If it is a one- hand knife (knife with a blade that can be locked with one hand ), special regulations apply in Germany, among other things, with regard to the fundamentally prohibited use . The knife is wielded when the actual power over it is exercised outside of one's own home, business premises or one's own pacified property, i.e. also in the car. The use of a one-hand knife is allowed, however, if a legitimate interest, in particular z. B. in connection with the exercise of the profession. For certain types of rescue knives, the German Federal Criminal Police Office no longer classifies them as weapons, but as tools.

See also

Web links

Commons : Belt Knife  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Südmersen, Ulrich Cimolino: Technical assistance in car accidents . 2nd Edition. ecomed-Storck, Landsberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-609-77492-3 , p. 144 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ What belongs in a sales representative's car? Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Talheim fire brigade: belt knife. ( Memento of December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved December 7, 2016
  4. ↑ a b § 42a WaffG
  5. ↑ OLG Stuttgart · Decision of June 14, 2011 · Az. 4 Ss 137/11. Retrieved April 16, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Federal Criminal Police Office: Classification of so-called "rescue knives" or "Rescue Tools" ( memento of May 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) of August 28, 2003. Notice of assessment (published in Federal Gazette No. 165 of September 4, 2003)