Hans Brunswig
Hans Brunswig (born October 25, 1908 in Mannheim ; † August 4, 2004 in Kirchlengern ) was a German firefighter and author .
Life
Brunswig studied mechanical engineering at the TH Karlsruhe and was awarded a Dipl.-Ing. graduated. In 1938 he joined the Hamburg fire brigade as a fire engineer . In 1943 he was appointed major in the fire police and on August 1, 1945, he was promoted to fire chief. In 1945 he was promoted to chief fire chief and in 1963 to fire director. He headed the Hamburg fire brigade from 1963 to 1968.
He wrote a number of specialist books on the history of fire services and is considered a chronicler of the Hamburg firestorm .
Publications
- Brunswig, Hans: foam pipe in front! Documentation on the history of the extinguishing agent foam and the TOTAL-KOMET air foam process ; Ladenburg; To the friends of Total Foerstner & Co, 1973; 136 pages
- Brunswig, Hans: Firestorm over Hamburg , Motorbuch, 2000, ISBN 3-879-43570-7
Honors
- 1971: Honorary membership and award of the Heinrich Henne Medal of the Association for the Promotion of German Fire Protection e. V. (vfdb)
literature
- Lexicon of the Hamburg fire brigade. ( Digitized version ), p. 10
Web links
- Hans Brunswig biography at hamburg.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hamburg mourns Hans Brunswig , Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 14, 2004, accessed on May 27, 2017
- ^ Medal holder Heinrich Henne Medal , accessed on May 14, 2019
Friedrich Wilhelm Kipping (1872–1892) | Adolph Libert Westphalen (1893–1916) | Theodor-Paul Krüger (1916–1926) | Otto-Wilhelm Sander (1926–1934) | Georg Braatz (1934–1935) | Otto Zaps (1935–1945) | Johannes Westphal (1945–1949) | Wilhelm Schwarzenberger (1949–1963) | Horst Hertell (1963) | Hans Brunswig (1963–1968) | Manfred Gebhardt (1968–1991) | Dieter Farrenkopf (1991–2006) | Klaus Maurer (2006–2018) | Christian Schwarz (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brunswig, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German firefighter and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 4, 2004 |
| Place of death | Kirchlengern |