Reinhard Krumbach

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Reinhard Krumbach (born April 11, 1902 in Stettin ; † July 25, 1968 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) was a German fireworker .

Career

Krumbach was first a fireworker in the 100,000-man army and during the Second World War he was head of a demolition squad in Austria. After the end of the war, the US military administration brought him to Bremen, and later he came to Bavaria. There he was employed as a security engineer at the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and headed the munitions, bomb clearance and demolition squads.

During his professional career, he rendered more than 1,500 bombs harmless. The most sensational cases occurred in Würzburg and Nuremberg:

On Ascension Day 1950, together with the demolition master Erich Frodermann in Würzburg, he removed a 250-kilogram dud from a collapsed house, from which only the rear detonator could be removed, but not the severely deformed head detonator. Since the bomb could not be blown up because of the dense development around the site, it had to be transported away on a trailer, buried deep in the peat debris.

On September 29, 1951, together with Frodermann, in the densely populated Nuremberg district of Hummelstein , he blew up an aerial bomb weighing 500 kilograms, presumably of British origin, which had been found two days earlier during excavation work in Äußere Ziegelgasse. The bomb had a touch-sensitive toggle switch and a long-time detonator with an expansion lock that fell when it hit the tail unit. It was not possible to remove the detonator or transport the bomb. No damage was caused by the artful demolition.

On December 7, 1951, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit as the second Bavarian after Frodermann for his commitment to life.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the registration office of the municipality of Herrsching, October 15, 2013
  2. ↑ a b With death up to you and you. In: Abendzeitung. No. 284, December 8, 1951
  3. ↑ Nuremberg breathes a sigh of relief: mine bomb eliminated after 30 hours of anxious waiting - detonation with almost no damage. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten. September 29, 1951, p. 1
  4. ↑ 5:50 p.m .: a detonation saved 8,000 people. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten. September 29, 1951, p. 9
  5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung. 7th December 1951
  6. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 3, No. 250, December 29, 1951.
personal data
SURNAME Krumbach, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fireworkers
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1968
Place of death Herrsching am Ammersee