Manfred Seidl

Manfred Seidl (born February 4, 1944 in Oberrabnitz , Burgenland ) is an Austrian fire department official.

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Manfred Seidl attended HTL Mödling and graduated from high school in 1964 . As a mechanical engineer, he first worked as a designer and later as a sales engineer. Then Seidl, whose father was also a member of the fire brigade , started full-time with the Burgenland Fire Brigade Association . He did training with the professional fire departments in Vienna , Linz and Salzburg and was already entrusted with training tasks in his own association.

Due to his marriage, he moved to Eisenstadt. In 1971 Seidl became the branch manager of the Burgenland regional fire brigade association and headmaster of the regional fire brigade school in Eisenstadt. During his leadership, the number of course participants increased from an initial 450 per year to around 4,000 in 1990.

As a member of a voluntary fire brigade at the same time , i.e. on a voluntary basis, he was a delegate in the fire fighting technology specialist committee in the ÖBFV . In the state fire service competitions , he was also a deputy director for a few years and later director. From 1979 to 1990 he was the commander of the disaster relief service for Burgenland and, at the same time, deputy fire brigade commander .

Above all, he had good international contacts with neighboring countries to the east, so that fire brigade members from Hungary , Slovenia and Croatia also took part in training at the Burgenland fire brigade school in the 1970s .

In 1990 he was elected regional fire brigade commander. He was first elected Federal Fire Brigade President as successor to Erwin Nowak in 1998 and re-elected in 2003. After leaving after two terms, he was elected honorary president of the ÖBFV for life. Josef Buchta was elected as his successor .

He resigned from the state fire brigade commander when he reached the age limit of 65 at the end of 2009. Alois Kögl took over as successor.

Awards

• 2005: Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• Large Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the ÖBFV
• Great decoration of the province of Burgenland
• Large Gold Cross of Merit of the Burgenland Fire Brigade Association
• German Fire Brigade Cross of Honor in gold
• Honorary President of the ÖBFV
• Commander's Cross of the Province of Burgenland (2009)
• Honorary State Fire Brigade Commanders for Life (2009)

literature

• Handover of command in emergency number 122 - 2011 yearbook of the Austrian fire services

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} History of the LFV Burgenland accessed on September 25, 2019

Web links

• Biography in the fire department lens