List of German cities with a professional fire brigade

There are professional fire brigades in 109 cities in Germany ; the 110th professional fire brigade will be set up in Hanau on January 1, 2021 .

The guidelines for setting up a professional fire brigade are regulated in the fire protection laws of the respective federal state.

city	state	Founding year of the professional fire brigade (BF)	Employees (approx.)
Aachen ( Fire Brigade Aachen )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1871	400
Altenburg ( Altenburg Fire Department )	Thuringia	1921	30th
Augsburg ( Augsburg Fire Brigade )	Bavaria	1899	210
Bautzen ( fire brigade Bautzen )	Saxony	2009	36
Berlin ( Berlin Fire Brigade )	Berlin	1851	3900
Bielefeld ( Bielefeld Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1899	310
Bochum ( Bochum Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1901	500
Bonn ( Bonn Fire Brigade )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1941	370
Bottrop ( Bottrop Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1976	170
Brandenburg an der Havel ( Brandenburg fire department )	Brandenburg	1872/1927	60
Braunschweig ( Braunschweig Fire Department )	Lower Saxony	1875	360
Bremen ( fire brigade Bremen )	Bremen	1870	600
Bremerhaven ( Bremerhaven Fire Brigade )	Bremen	1893	300
Chemnitz ( Chemnitz Fire Department )	Saxony	1866	110
Cottbus ( fire brigade Cottbus )	Brandenburg	1947	210
Cuxhaven ( Cuxhaven Fire Brigade )	Lower Saxony	2005	55
Darmstadt ( Darmstadt Fire Brigade )	Hesse	1895	160
Delmenhorst ( Delmenhorst Fire Department )	Lower Saxony	2012	90
Dessau-Roßlau ( Dessau-Roßlau fire department )	Saxony-Anhalt	1923	100
Dortmund ( Dortmund Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1901	1000
Dresden ( Dresden Fire Brigade )	Saxony	1868	700
Duisburg ( Duisburg Fire Brigade )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1904	600
Düsseldorf ( fire department Düsseldorf )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1872	1100
Eberswalde ( Eberswalde fire department )	Brandenburg	2000	35
Eisenach ( Eisenach Fire Department )	Thuringia	after 1947	33
Erfurt ( Erfurt Fire Brigade )	Thuringia	1910	215
Essen ( fire brigade Essen )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1894	750
Flensburg ( Flensburg Fire Department )	Schleswig-Holstein	1904	85
Frankfurt am Main ( Frankfurt am Main Fire Brigade )	Hesse	1874	950
Frankfurt (Oder) ( Frankfurt (Oder) Fire Brigade )	Brandenburg	1909
Freiburg im Breisgau ( Freiburg im Breisgau fire brigade )	Baden-Württemberg	1945	130
Fürth ( Fürth fire department )	Bavaria	1954	80
Gelsenkirchen ( Gelsenkirchen Fire Brigade )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1904	310
Gera ( fire brigade Gera )	Thuringia	1923	135
Giessen ( fire brigade Giessen )	Hesse	1914	70
Görlitz ( Görlitz Fire Department )	Saxony	1897	60
Gotha ( Gotha Fire Brigade )	Thuringia	1945	35
Göttingen ( Fire Brigade Göttingen )	Lower Saxony	1908	140
Greifswald ( Greifswald Fire Brigade )	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	1876	60
Gütersloh ( Gütersloh Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	2011	120
Hagen ( Hagen Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1913	260
Halle (Saale) ( Halle (Saale) fire department )	Saxony-Anhalt	1889	160
Hamburg ( Hamburg Fire Brigade )	Hamburg	1872	2600
Hamm ( Hamm fire department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1975	52
Hanover ( Hanover Fire Brigade )	Lower Saxony	1880	750
Hanau ( Hanau Fire Department )	Hesse	2021
Heidelberg ( Heidelberg Fire Department )	Baden-Württemberg	1896	110
Heilbronn ( Heilbronn Fire Department )	Baden-Württemberg	1971	90
Herne ( Herne Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1975	150
Herten ( Herten fire department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	2011
Hildesheim ( Hildesheim Fire Department )	Lower Saxony	1896
Hoyerswerda ( Hoyerswerda Fire Brigade )	Saxony	1950
Ingolstadt ( Ingolstadt Fire Department )	Bavaria	1993
Iserlohn ( Iserlohn Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1974	120
Jena ( Jena Fire Brigade )	Thuringia	1947	120
Kaiserslautern ( fire department Kaiserslautern )	Rhineland-Palatinate	1955	120
Karlsruhe ( fire brigade Karlsruhe )	Baden-Württemberg	1926	210
Kassel ( fire brigade Kassel )	Hesse	1891	260
Kiel ( fire brigade Kiel )	Schleswig-Holstein	1896	250
Koblenz ( fire brigade Koblenz )	Rhineland-Palatinate	1910	120
Cologne ( Cologne Fire Brigade )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1872	1400
Krefeld ( fire brigade Krefeld )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1890	250
Leipzig ( Leipzig Fire Brigade )	Saxony	1865	640
Leverkusen ( Leverkusen Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1976	150
Lübeck ( Lübeck Fire Brigade )	Schleswig-Holstein	1898	450
Ludwigshafen am Rhein ( Ludwigshafen Fire Department )	Rhineland-Palatinate	1918	190
Lünen ( Lünen Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	2013	100
Magdeburg ( Magdeburg Fire Department )	Saxony-Anhalt	1874	270
Mainz ( Mainz Fire Department )	Rhineland-Palatinate	1906	280
Mannheim ( Mannheim Fire Department )	Baden-Württemberg	1891	280
Minden ( Minden Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1990	90
Mönchengladbach ( Mönchengladbach Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1901	400
Mühlhausen / Thuringia ( Mühlhausen fire brigade )	Thuringia	2019	29
Mülheim an der Ruhr ( Mülheim fire department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1924	250
Munich ( Fire Department Munich )	Bavaria	1879	2050
Münster ( Fire Department Münster )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1905	350
Neubrandenburg ( fire brigade Neubrandenburg )	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	1945	80
Neumünster ( Neumünster Fire Department )	Schleswig-Holstein	1914
Nordhausen ( fire brigade Nordhausen )	Thuringia	1945
Nuremberg ( Nuremberg Fire Brigade )	Bavaria	1875	460
Oberhausen ( Oberhausen Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1910	250
Offenbach am Main ( Offenbach Fire Department )	Hesse	1921	170
Oldenburg ( Oldenburg Fire Brigade )	Lower Saxony	1937	380
Osnabrück ( Osnabrück Fire Brigade )	Lower Saxony	1926	140
Pforzheim ( Pforzheim fire brigade )	Baden-Württemberg	1975	90
Plauen ( fire brigade Plauen )	Saxony	1907
Potsdam ( Fire Department Potsdam )	Brandenburg	1862
Ratingen ( Ratingen Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	2008
Regensburg ( Regensburg Fire Department )	Bavaria	1927
Remscheid ( Remscheid Fire Department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1901	140
Reutlingen ( Reutlingen Fire Brigade )	Baden-Württemberg	2004	70
Rostock ( Rostock Fire Brigade )	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	1908	330
Saarbrücken ( Saarbrücken fire brigade )	Saarland	1911	180
Salzgitter ( Salzgitter Fire Department )	Lower Saxony	1943
Schwerin ( Schwerin Fire Department )	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	1869	220
Solingen ( Solingen Fire Brigade )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1947	200
Stralsund ( Stralsund fire brigade )	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	1883	100
Stuttgart ( Fire Department Stuttgart )	Baden-Württemberg	1891	520
Suhl ( fire brigade Suhl )	Thuringia	2019	50
Trier ( Trier Fire Department )	Rhineland-Palatinate	1914
Weimar ( Weimar Fire Department )	Thuringia	1926	69
Wiesbaden ( Wiesbaden Fire Department )	Hesse	1903	280
Wilhelmshaven ( fire brigade Wilhelmshaven )	Lower Saxony	1940	120
Wismar ( Wismar Fire Brigade )	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	1928	50
Witten ( Witten fire department )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1975	90
Wolfsburg ( Wolfsburg Fire Department )	Lower Saxony	1952	170
Worms ( Worms Fire Department )	Rhineland-Palatinate	2017	66
Wuppertal ( Wuppertal Fire Brigade )	North Rhine-Westphalia	1892	400
Würzburg ( Würzburg Fire Department )	Bavaria	1972
Zwickau ( Zwickau Fire Department )	Saxony	1904

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Professional fire brigades in Germany - complete address directory. Fire department magazine. Ebner Verlag, 2016.
2. ↑ Official Gazette of the City of Bautzen , Volume 18, No. 22 of October 18, 2008, p. 3. bautzen.de (PDF file; 81 kB)
3. ↑ Address by Alderman Pollmann on January 9, 1991 on the 50th anniversary of the Bonn professional fire brigade ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ feuerwehr-delmenhorst.de ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ FürthWiki Feuerwehr Years of foundation of the Fürth fire department (information from June 2012). In addition, the foundation of the professional fire brigade Fürth by the volunteer fire brigade Fürth-Stadt ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) is dated to "after the Second World War".
6. ↑ Press release-NRW.de - Gütersloh: Council majority for professional fire brigade ( Memento of May 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Jan-Erik Hegemann: Magistrate decides to convert to January 1, 2021, Hanau fire department becomes BF. Feuerwehrmagazin, October 16, 2018, accessed on October 21, 2018 . 
8. ↑ The Hanau fire brigade is z. Currently still voluntary, the guard is permanently manned by full-time staff.
9. ^ City of Herne. Press office of the city of Herne, April 25, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Clear way for the professional fire brigade. The West , February 16, 2011.
11. ^ History of the Hildesheim fire brigade , excerpt from the commemorative publication for the 75th anniversary in 1951
12. ↑ Chronicle ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Hoyerswerda fire brigade.
13. ↑ Professional fire brigade | Leverkusen fire department. Retrieved May 25, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Professional fire brigade is a done deal.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) City of Lünen, December 7, 2012.
15. ↑ The professional fire brigade has been decided. The West, December 7, 2012.
16. ↑ Professional fire brigade. City of Mühlhausen, accessed April 16, 2019.
17. ↑ Danger Defense Center (GAZ). feuerwehrsuhl.de
18. ↑ Professional and voluntary fire brigade Worms.
19. ^ History. Wuppertal volunteer fire department.
20. ↑ The history of the professional fire brigade. City of Würzburg.