Reinhard Ries

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Reinhard Ries (born May 17, 1956 in Schenklengsfeld ) is a German architect and former head of the Frankfurt am Main fire department .

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Reinhard Ries was active early on in the youth fire brigade in his home town of Schenklengsfeld, which his father of the same name had founded. He attended the old monastery school in Bad Hersfeld , when it was converted into the Obersberg model school , until he graduated from high school in 1976. After completing his military service in the armed forces , he began studying architecture in 1978 at the Technical University of Darmstadt , which he graduated with a degree in engineering . This was followed by a two-year traineeship in the higher fire service as a fire trainee at the Darmstadt regional council . From 1988 to 1993 he was with the Munich fire brigade . On February 1, 1993 he was appointed head of the Frankfurt fire department. In his first month in office he was in charge of the chemical accident on Rose Monday at the Hoechst plant in Frankfurt . As director of the fire department in Frankfurt am Main, he was head of fire protection , disaster control , rescue services , emergency medical services and air ambulance with 1,000 full-time and 1,500 volunteer workers and was responsible for preventive and structural fire protection.

During his tenure, he began to realign the tactics and the associated decentralized restructuring of the Frankfurt professional fire brigade from the previous fire engine to the relay concept . This included the creation of five new locations.

Ries is honorary professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and in the architecture / interior design department at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences .

He worked on various national and international committees and was a member of the international commission investigating the fire disaster at Düsseldorf Airport in 1996 . In several foreign assignments he worked as an expert for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Ries had already pointed out the fire hazard of polystyrene- based insulation boards in December 2013 . His assessments received wide media coverage in connection with the major fire in London's Grenfell Tower in June 2017. With the submission of the London investigation commission reports, however, his allegations at the time turned out to be false: No polystyrene was installed on the Grenfell Tower and the external course of the fire was determined by the combustible weather protection panels from an American manufacturer.

After 25 years as head of the fire department, Reinhard Ries left the services of the city of Frankfurt am Main on March 31, 2018. His successor was his previous representative, Karl-Heinz Frank .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurt fire chief Reinhard Ries: A boy from the "Landecker Amt" , Osthessen News from November 27, 2016, accessed on June 16, 2017
  2. ↑ Continuity at the Frankfurt professional fire brigade , press release of the City of Frankfurt from January 9, 2017, accessed on June 16, 2017
  3. ^ Website of Reinhard Ries, TU Darmstadt
  4. ^ The common thread: The man against fires , Frankfurter Neue Presse of December 28, 2013, accessed on June 16, 2017
  5. ↑ See an example of an interview with the chief fire brigade: Why a fire like the one in London is unlikely in Germany , FAZ from June 14, 2017, accessed on June 16, 2017
  6. ↑ Prof. Michael Reick: Expert - thermal insulation innocent of Grenfell fire disaster. In: SOLID. Deutsche Feuerwehrzeitung, October 17, 2018, accessed on June 3, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ New chief of the fire department. Frankfurter Rundschau, accessed on March 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Frankfurt's fire chief Professor Ries retires , Feuerwehr-Magazin from March 16, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ries, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and head of the Frankfurt fire department
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenklengsfeld