Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior

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The Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior , also known as the Commission for the Protection of the Civilian Population , was introduced in 1951 by the then Federal Minister of the Interior Gustav Heinemann (then CDU) as the Commission of the Emergency Community of German Science to advise the Federal Cabinet on questions of the devastating consequences of a Third World War and other transnational issues To warn and advise major incidents. Her field of work related to general and special disaster hazards in war and peace. The activities of the protection commission are regulated in Section 19 of the Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance Act (ZSKG). On April 20, 2015, the Protection Commission was dissolved in order to achieve more flexible advice on scientific and technical issues relating to civil protection.

organization

It was an unusually independent commission: it was made up of respected experts from the fields of natural sciences , technology , medicine and social sciences , complemented itself through co-optation and elected its chairperson itself. It processed internal ministerial inquiries, proposed its own research projects, published the series of publications of the Protection Commission and created hazard reports at irregular intervals (the first in 1996; the second in 2001; the third in 2006 and the fourth in May 2011). The members were active on a voluntary basis , appointed or appointed by the Federal Minister of the Interior at the suggestion of the Protection Commission.

From 2014 until the dissolution of the protection commission in 2015, Horst Miska was chairman of the protection commission. Between 2012 and 2014, Rolf-Dieter Wilken was chairman of the protection commission, which had been a member since 2002 and chairman of the natural and engineering sciences department since 2009. Previously, Johann Wilhelm Weidringer had been the chairman since 2010 . The former chairman (1987–2003) and honorary chairman (2003–2012), Arthur Scharmann , died on April 13, 2012 at the age of 84. Heinz Reichenbach was the honorary chairman of the protection commission .

The “Third Hazard Report”: Massive gaps in disaster risk management

In 2006, the six most important gaps were in the following areas:

  1. Mobilization of self-help potential in the population
  2. Protection of critical infrastructures
  3. Warning and continuous information of the population and the organizations of civil protection and disaster relief
  4. Care and aftercare in the medical, pharmaceutical and psychosocial fields
  5. General institutional organization of emergency care
  6. Supply of food and drinking water.

To close these gaps, the Protection Commission gives its ideas and recommendations:

  • To 1.) There is no permanent active information of the society about risks and precautionary possibilities.
  • Regarding 2.) Critical infrastructures are the energy supply, chemical plants, electronic communication systems, water supply, public buildings, transport and resource systems and the financial system. Failure of these structures or individual parts of them would lead to far-reaching consequences. Here preventive precautionary measures are pending.
  • Regarding 3.) In the area of ​​warning and continuous information of the population, radio and television are modules of a missing overall concept that requires replacement capacities suitable for disasters with the associated technical warning and communication means. Quote: “There is a need for action here; the technical and technical issues have largely been resolved, but not the economic ones. ”In other words, the payment for the necessary resources has not yet been resolved.
  • To 4.) In the medical field it is still not possible to implement a generally accepted concept for care after major disasters.
  • to 5.) The establishment of the common reporting and situation center was correct. The permanent strengthening of the coordination task of the federal government and thus of the Federal Ministry of the Interior remains unsolved.
  • To 6) The same applies to the supply of food and drinking water. The different plans of the federal and state departments appear irresponsible. There are attributable omissions.

In addition: Further recommendations as well as indications of the need for research that exist to close the identified gaps can be found in the report .

Selected publications

  • Third hazard report , civil defense research new series, vol. 59, BBK , Bonn [March] 2006

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Protection Commission . Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance. Archived from the original on January 7, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ formerly: civil protection research and civil protection research. New episode in the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
  3. ↑ Head of the Protection Commission . Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Directory of Members . Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ Chair of the Protection Commission . Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance. Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ Rolf ‐ Dieter Wilken, Prof. Dr., CV (PDF) Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  7. ^ Mourning the honorary chairman Prof. Scharmann . Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2015.