Lower Saxony Academy for Fire and Disaster Protection
| Lower Saxony Academy for Fire and Disaster Protection | |
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| type of school | Fire school |
| founding | 1931 |
| place | Celle and Loy |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 38 '15 " N , 10 ° 3' 13" E |
| carrier | Lower Saxony |
| student | 7,000 annually |
| Teachers | 86 |
| management | Oliver Moravec |
| Website | Portal Academy for Fire and Disaster Protection |
The Lower Saxony Academy for Fire and Disaster Protection (NABK) is an institution of the State of Lower Saxony based on the Lower Saxony Fire Protection Act of April 1, 1978. On January 1, 2011, the previously independent State Fire Brigade School Celle and the State Fire Brigade School Loy became the newly founded Lower Saxony Academy for fire and disaster protection.
history
With the amalgamation of the two state fire brigade schools, the state of Lower Saxony is following a recommendation in the final report on ensuring fire protection in Lower Saxony with special consideration of the demographic change of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport from 2010. The two locations in Celle and Loy will continue to be operated. The training and further education of the volunteer firefighters from Bremen is also carried out there.
History of the Celle site
When the then chairman of the “Feuerwehrfachschule zu Celle” foundation sent out the invitations to the opening ceremony, it was initially by no means clear how this facility would flourish and how it would affect: On April 26, 1931, the first fire department school in the province of Hanover was celebrated in Celle opened. There, henceforth all had with ranks to attend "occupied" Firefighters their prescribed courses. The school was emblazoned in the flag decorations. High up on the roof, on the side of the railway, the writing shone on a lattice, visible from afar:
Hannover Provincial Fire Brigade School
Walter Schnell was assigned the local management of the school by the chairman of the Hanover provincial fire brigade association, Senator Carl Freundel from Peine.
The only permanent employee at the time was fire chief Wilhelm Flachsbart from the voluntary fire brigade in Celle, who, with his wife and two female assistants, ensured that internal service operations, including the school's own kitchen, worked. The other teachers were volunteers in the first few years. This included personalities from the areas that were closely related to the idea of fire protection (such as the fire brigade association, the fire insurance company , accident insurance , the forest administration and managers of the volunteer fire departments and professional fire departments).
At the beginning of the training, the school only had two portable pumps and one hand-operated sprayer . Up until 1934, vehicles from the Celle volunteer fire brigade were made available for training on fire engines . On November 25, 1932, the association's managing director, district fire chief of the Osterholz district, Friedrich Windhorst from Grohn near Vegesack, announced the relocation of the association's office from Lüneburg to Celle to the fire department school. In autumn 1934 the construction of a house with flames began. At the beginning of 1935, the house of the Karl Stelter commercial agency, Wittinger Strasse 9, was acquired. A little later, the extension of the school building was built. On May 14, 1935, the Flammenhaus was opened in the presence of numerous representatives of the city and state authorities and in the presence of the President Viktor Lutze . On September 1, 1938, the school received a full-time fire department director, 38-year-old Hermann Freiherr von dem Bussche.
During the Second World War , the fire brigade school had to perform different tasks. From some still existing documents it can be seen that the curriculum and the types of courses had to be adapted to the war events. The main tasks were in the fire protection training of the forces for air protection and in the perception of the fire protection service by setting up a mobile unit (standby). Men and later women had to be trained in special courses for air defense. Trainers were called in to form so-called mobile units, which became active in the event of various damage events, such as the mineral oil storage fires that often occurred in the Celler area. The number of course participants temporarily fell in 1945 to the level of 1931. In mid-March 1945, course I with 45 participants was held.
Towards the end of the war, on April 12, 1945, the fire service personnel in the basement were briefly captured by the British troops. The buildings had been damaged by explosions on the port railway bridge. The inventory was partly looted and partly destroyed by the Poles who had lived in the barracks on Wittinger Straße, at the corner of Bremer Weg, on the OHE premises. The existing equipment and the school's documents were almost completely lost. School operations inevitably came to a standstill.
Hermann von dem Bussche and some helpers had to go with the British soldiers to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 18, 1945 in order to alleviate the need for the water supply as part of the prisoners' liberation. He became the acting head of the provisional fire department, and the regional fire-fighting system was provisionally rebuilt in cooperation with the British.
After the end of the war, the old teachers, such as the director von dem Bussche, the fire supervisors Künnecke, Wehner, Fuchs, Schmidt, Niehoff etc., as well as various specialists for the technical and administrative areas started. In December 1945 the first 23 participants attended a machinist course .
The facility had been in the buildings of the former leather factory on Biermannstrasse for over 43 years. On October 14, 1974, a spacious new building at Bremer Weg 164 could be moved into. A few days later, on October 20, 1974, the headmaster Heinz Bartels welcomed the first course participant in the new building. In 2012, the Celle fire brigade school was rebuilt on the site of the former Freiherr-von-Fritsch barracks in the Scheuen district of Celle and it is to be moved into gradually by 2020. The administration department in Celle has been headed by lawyer and former triathlete Sandra Wallenhorst since 2017 .
History of the Loy site
The Oldenburgische Landesfeuerwehrverband eV (OLV) acquired the former manor "Haus Osterberg" on October 22, 1929, including an approximately 3.5 hectare property. The necessary conversions and expansions, as well as the procurement of teaching and visual material, including power injections, were financed through the issue of share certificates and a lottery.
On August 9, 1930, the home and training facility of the OLV was officially opened by the then regional fire chief Ibo Koch in the presence of many guests of honor. With regard to the agriculturally structured Free State of Oldenburg, courses were only held in the months of October to April. In the rest of the year, the facility was used to hold conferences and meetings of the association and as a home (rest home) for firefighters with their families. By law of September 10, 1933, the OLV was dissolved and the successor organization "Landesfeuerwehrverband Oldenburg" was directly subordinated to the Oldenburg Ministry of the Interior.
Even if the Free State of Oldenburg granted it its own budget, the upcoming construction work could only be financed through collections and donations. In the following period, a training hall with classrooms and a fire house was built in 1935, a fire water pond , equipment accommodation and the hose drying tower in 1936 and a garage and residential building in 1937. According to the law on fire extinguishing of November 23, 1938, the school premises were then transferred to the Free State of Oldenburg, although there was no change in administration. In this way, the fire-fighting training could be continued during the war.
Before the official end of the war on May 8, 1945, Canadian troops arrived on the school grounds and claimed the Osterberg house and the buildings in front of them. Nevertheless, courses could be held again from autumn 1945 using all the makeshift possibilities. After the state of Lower Saxony was founded on November 1, 1946, the training facility was subordinated to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior. Due to the increasing number of participants due to the expansion of the catchment area, it was necessary to extend the training again to the entire site. Efforts to evacuate the Osterberg house were intensified and finally the occupying powers withdrew on March 24, 1948. After extensive repair work and the lack of new inventory, teaching was resumed at the end of 1948 to the extent desired.
Since that time, the Osterberg premises under the name "Lower Saxony State Fire Brigade School Loy" have again been used exclusively for training purposes for the voluntary members of the volunteer fire brigades and for the members of the professional and plant fire brigades. In order to be able to do justice to the further developing demands on the training, new construction and maintenance measures were carried out again and again. In the 1950s, a small vehicle hall and a farm building were built, which are now used as a respiratory protection workshop. In the 1960s, two new classrooms and the hose workshop were built. The 1970s were particularly characterized by the repeated expansion of the vehicle hall and the vehicle-friendly paving of the paths and exercise areas. The 1980s and 1990s were mainly used for major renovation and renovation work. During this time, the school's current appearance was created, as the Osterberg house was completely renovated and partially gutted. After the completion of a new fire training house in 2009, a modern teaching building is currently being built after the training hall and the fire house have been demolished.
Courses
Some courses are held at both locations, such as:
- Trainer in the fire brigade ,
- Group leader ,
- Head of a fire brigade ,
- Technical assistance ,
- Squad leader ,
- Association leader ,
- Platoon leader ;
The following courses are only offered at the Celle site:
- ABC decontamination P ,
- ABC use,
- Respiratory protective equipment ,
- Leadership in the ABC mission ,
- Equipment maintenance ,
- Head of a plant fire brigade;
and only at the Loy site are the courses:
- Instructor of solid-fueled fire training systems,
- Introduction to staff work,
- Introduction to staff work for HVB staff ,
- Multipliers in fall protection,
- Organizational head of the rescue service
offered.
Investments
In order to be able to optimally train the members of the fire brigade for their missions, there is a solid-fuel-fired training facility on the premises in Celle , in which one can practice extreme fire-fighting situations under realistic conditions .
Support association
Supporting the development of the school facility is the aim of the friends' association, which has been accompanying the Lower Saxony Academy for Fire and Disaster Protection - Celle location since 2004.
See also
literature
- Matthias Blazek : 75 years of the Lower Saxony State Fire Brigade School in Celle. (1931-2006). Friends of the Lower Saxony State Fire Brigade School, Celle 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-019333-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.feuerwehrschulen.niedersachsen.de .
- ↑ Final report (PDF document), p. 100ff
- ↑ Fire brigade school becomes emergency service school ( memento of the original from July 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article in the fire department magazine from June 6, 2012
- ^ Matthias Blazek : 100 years of organized fire extinguishing in Baven. 1907-2007. A reader and reference work. M. Blazek, Adelheidsdorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-019848-9 , p. 94f.
- ↑ www.cellesche-zeitung.de ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
