Security and emergency services
The security and auxiliary service ( SHD ) was an area of responsibility of the air raid protection (LS) in the Second World War , which was set up in the German Reich from 1940 for use after air raids .
The organization of the SHD was regulated in Section 2 of the First Implementing Ordinance for the Air Protection Act. In air raid locations, the police were responsible for the SHD. Facilities of the German Red Cross , technical emergency aid as well as fire extinguishing , health and construction were used for the SHD.
The number of units was based on the size and the assumed air sensitivity of the places with regard to the number and importance of their industries, their transport facilities, military facilities, important public administrations and strategic importance.
The SHD's specialist services were:
- LS fire extinguishing service
- LS repair service
- LS medical service
- LS veterinary service
- LS detox service
In 1940, the Reichsanstalt für Luftschutz ( Reichsanstalt für Luftschutz) graphically represented the breakdown of the local security and auxiliary services. In every air raid shelter there was standby staff and a reserve to fill out. Several air raid groups were divided into air raid sections. In the air raid protection areas, the police, fire brigade, rescue and medical troops and air raid workers from the Reich Air Protection Association formed the emergency services.
literature
- Erich Hampe : The civil air defense in the Second World War. Documentation and experience reports about structure and use. Verlag Bernard and Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1963. bva.bund.de (PDF; excerpt, 23 pages)
- Hubert Darsow, Berthold Fokken, Friedrich Nicolaus: Commentary on the Air Protection Act and the implementing regulations. Beck-Verlag, Munich 1943
- Andreas Linhardt: Fire Brigade and Air Protection 1926–1945. The restructuring of public fire fighting in Germany from the point of view of civil air protection. Braunschweig, 2002