Head of the fire department
Under a Fire Chief is understood in Germany , both the functional description for the leader of a municipal fire department and the designation of the appropriate course to fulfill this scope.
course
The head of the fire brigade is the course designation according to FwDV 2. The prerequisite for participation in the course is successful participation in the "group leader" course, unless further training is required under state law. The aim of the training is to qualify for the management of a fire brigade in organizational and administrative terms. The course duration is at least 35 hours. The course is held at state fire brigade schools .
Function designation
The functional designations apply to both female and male fire service members.
Germany
The head of the fire brigade is the manager who administratively leads a municipal fire brigade. Usually the fire brigade in a municipality is divided into several locations. There are then also several leaders at different levels. There can be fire department heads for the community / city as a whole and for the subordinate districts / city districts.
Since the fire brigade system in Germany is regulated at state level, each federal state has issued its own legal provisions for this. There is no uniform naming of the functions in Germany. This table shows the various names for the head of a fire brigade broken down by federal state:
Austria
- commander
Switzerland
- commander
South-Tirol
- commander
Web links
- Hessen - Fire and Disaster Protection Act (PDF)
- North Rhine-Westphalia - Career Ordinance Voluntary Fire Brigade (PDF; 53 kB)
- Rhineland-Palatinate - State law on fire protection, general aid and disaster control
- Saxony-Anhalt - Career Ordinance for Members of Voluntary Fire Brigades (LVO-FF). GVBl. LSA p. 640
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d FwDV 2 (PDF)
- ↑ Fire brigade regulation 3 (PDF) Units in fire fighting and rescue operations, Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (BBK), 2008
- ↑ According to Bavarian fire brigade law, municipalities with several fire brigades do not have their own fire brigade management function as head of all fire brigades in a municipality. This applies regardless of any purely administrative positions. However, there are regulations for certain tasks such as Art. 16 II 1 and Art. 18 II 2 BayFwG.