Warning net
The warning network was a facility of the civil protection of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was a separate telephone network of the Deutsche Bundespost for the warning service , which was set up in 1959 and existed until 1992. The network was intended for the transmission of reports and alarms in the event of a defense and special danger situations (air strikes, NBC dangers).
The central points were the ten warning offices, which were able to reach warning points connected in their area in the form of a broadcast over a dedicated line . These were civil protection and disaster control institutions, military agencies, authorities and special companies.
At the end of the warning network, around 12,000 warning points and 64,500 sirens were connected. In 1992, the separate lines of the warning service were deregistered, and the operation of the services that were in the process of being dissolved was now handled via the public telephone network.
In order to inform the population quickly and extensively about acute danger situations after the dissolution of the warning service, and thus also the warning network, a revival of the warning service was discussed in 2001/2002 against the background of the increasing risk of terrorist attacks. As a result, the satellite-based warning system MoWaS was set up.