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34-665: The brigade was officially formed on February 1, 1851, by Ludwig Scabell, under the command of King Frederick William IV . Since August 2018, the Berlin Fire Brigade is under the command of its Fire Chief , State Fire Director Dr. Karsten Homrighausen. Landesbranddirektor, short LBD, translates in German to State Fire Director. The Berlin Fire Brigade is the oldest and largest municipal fire brigade in Germany. It has

68-599: A professional fire brigade and ensure its training and equipment . Scabell created the Berlin Fire Defence with the support of the former Berlin Police Chief Carl von Hickeldey. Within a very short period, almost 1,000 men were hired and trained while the professional fire stations were built. In the same year, the world's first electrical fire alarm network was installed in Berlin. The implementation

102-679: A rescue height of over 50 meters, had a car that could be used as an elevator. In the days after the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the West Berlin Fire Brigade had to keep using its jumping blankets because people jumped from buildings on the demarcation line towards freedom in West Berlin. In 1969, the West Berlin Rescue Service was incorporated into the fire brigade. The Berliner Rettungsdienst

136-661: A total of 35 professional fire stations, 58 volunteer fire stations and 47 youth fire stations. The urban parts of Berlin with a high population density are covered by professional fire stations, which are staffed 24/7. The firefighters work in a 12-hour shift system structured in four subdivisions. A few professional fire stations accommodate Type B volunteer fire brigades in the same building, who can provide support if necessary. In sparsely populated areas, Type A volunteer fire stations maintain their own buildings and deployment areas in which they have primary responsibility for operations Vehicles, technical equipment and protective clothing of

170-556: A total of 4,479 staff, including 4,082 operational firefighters and officers based at 35 main fire stations. It is supported by an additional 1,537 volunteer firefighters based at 58 volunteer fire stations. Freiwillige Feuerwehr - "Free Willing Fire Defence" is the term used for Volunteer Fire Stations. The Berlin Fire Brigade has an annual budget of around €250,000,000, which includes personnel costs and investments. In 2019, Berlin Fire Defence received 478,281 emergency calls. It

204-553: A tourist hotel, and an enormous cinema, the Kino International . The avenue, which is 90 metres (300 ft) wide and 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) long, is lined with monumental eight-story buildings designed in the wedding-cake style , the socialist classicism of the Soviet Union . At each end are dual towers at Frankfurter Tor and Strausberger Platz designed by Hermann Henselmann . The buildings differ in

238-474: Is the busiest of all fire services in Germany. Approximately 83% of the alarms per year are for the emergency services, 5% for technical assistance and only 2% for firefighting. Back in the mid-19th century, Berlin suffered a series of devastating fires. The city grew rapidly and buildings became more and more crowded. Resources could no longer keep up with the size of the buildings. Therefore, The King of Prussia decided in 1851 to command Ludwig Scabell to set up

272-614: The Rotes Rathaus , the home to the governing mayor and the government (the Senate of Berlin ) of the Federal state of Berlin. Firefighters protested under the catchphrase "BerlinBrennt" (lit. 'Berlin is Burning'). The causes included the increasing number of operations, inadequate equipment including vehicles and materials, as well as the lack of personnel. Before the reunification of Berlin in 1990, only West Berlin had more staff than

306-637: The Technisches Hilfswerk . The civil protection and disaster relief service of Germany. Initially, his deputy Wilfried Graefling became the temporary director and eventually the new Fire Director of Berlin in November 2006. Graefling left the Berlin Fire Brigade at the end of July 2018 and retired. His successor since August 1, 2018 is Karsten Homrighausen. In 2018, colleagues from the Berliner Fire Brigade protested in front of

340-631: The 1950s. Technology and training in East and West developed separately. In 1952 the East Berlin Fire Brigade was incorporated into the Volkspolizei , abbreviated VoPo, (lit. 'German People's Police') as "Organ F" and issued firearms and batons. East Berlin also received a "west turntable ladder" to protect the massive buildings on Stalinallee, today known as Karl-Marx-Allee . The turntable ladder type DL 52 manufactured by Metz, with

374-833: The Berlin Fire Brigade Association (LFV). The LFV Berlin is a member of the German Fire Brigade Association (DFV) based in Berlin. The Berlin Fire Brigade is also responsible for the Werkfeuerwehren and Betriebsfeuerwehren in Berlin. These private fire brigades belong to companies and protect special infrastructures. One example of a Werkfeuerwehr in Berlin is the Bayer AG Werkfeuerwehr in Berlin-Wedding . They are in close professional contact with

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408-612: The Berlin Fire Brigade and, with the exception of the Berufsfeuerwehren, can be alerted for special operations. The fire brigade maintains its own museum located in Berlin-Tegel . The museum shows the history of the Berlin Fire Brigade in an exhibition. The training and further education is concentrated at the Berlin Fire and Rescue Service Academy, short BFRA. The main campus is located at Schulzendorfer Straße in

442-641: The Berlin-Kreuzberg fire station was completely destroyed on the night of May 1, 1987. On October 3, 1990, the day of German reunification , "Organ F" the East Berlin Fire Brigade, was handed over to the West Berlin Fire Director Wolfgang Scholz. At that time, the fire brigades had a total staff of 3,788 in West Berlin and 1,112 in East Berlin. In 1992 W. Scholz retired and Albrecht Broemme was appointed as

476-600: The East German government by a Komsomol delegation on the occasion of the Third World Festival of Youth and Students was formally dedicated on 3 August 1951 after being temporarily placed at a location on the newly designed and impressive boulevard. It remained there until 1961 when it was removed in a clandestine operation in the course of de-Stalinization . On 17 June 1953 the Stalinallee became

510-673: The Nazi-led fire protection police did not intervene in the November pogroms in 1938 when the synagogues in Berlin were set on fire. After the Second World War, six of the 38 professional fire stations were lost. Of the 51 volunteer fire stations, three were totally destroyed while twelve were only partially. On November 21, 1948, the Berlin Fire Defence was divided into two separate authorities in East and West Berlin . The first post-war fire stations were built on both sides during

544-520: The West. Most stores would not accept payment for purchased items without a receipt from an East German bank showing that the West German Marks had been exchanged for East German Marks at a rate of 1:1. In the West, the exchange rate was 1:8 but most restaurants and bookstores were not concerned with these requirements so bargains were to be found. In February 2009, an anonymous author edited

578-622: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 972187486 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:00:54 GMT Karl-Marx-Allee Karl-Marx-Allee ( Karl Marx Avenue ) is a boulevard built by the GDR between 1952 and 1960 in Berlin Friedrichshain and Mitte . Today

612-614: The article "Karl-Marx-Allee" in the German-language edition of Misplaced Pages , claiming that during the time of the GDR the road had acquired the nickname " Stalin 's bathroom" due to the buildings' tiled façades. Subsequently, several media outlets reiterated this claim. No alternative verification for the term was given, making it a self-referential claim . After a letter written to the Berliner Zeitung questioned whether

646-659: The boulevard is named after Karl Marx . It should not be confused with the Karl-Marx-Straße in the Neukölln district of Berlin. The boulevard was named Stalinallee between 1949 and 1961 (previously Große Frankfurter Straße ), and was a flagship building project of East Germany's reconstruction programme after World War II . It was designed by the architects Hermann Henselmann , Hartmann , Hopp, Leucht, Paulick, and Souradny to contain spacious and luxurious apartments for workers, as well as shops, restaurants, cafés,

680-501: The engineer and manufacturer Greiner, they received the German patent for the world's first turntable ladder . The Berlin Fire Brigade put their first turntable ladder, built by the German company BAMAG, into service at the main fire station in 1882. In 1901 the International Fire Protection Exhibition took place in Berlin to mark the 50th anniversary of the professional fire brigade. In 1906 at

714-623: The fire station in Berlin-Grunewald , the first gasoline fire truck in Germany equipped with a fire pump was put into service. In 1908 Berlin purchased its first electric fire engine. During the First World War from 1914 to 1918, seven hundred officers had to transfer from the Berlin Fire Brigade to the Wehrmacht , where part of the firefighters were deployed in the newly created flamethrower regiments. On December 15, 1933,

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748-449: The focus of a worker uprising which endangered the young state's existence. Builders and construction workers demonstrated against the communist government, leading to a national uprising. The rebellion was crushed with Soviet tanks and troops, resulting in the deaths of 125 people. Later the street was used for East Germany's annual May Day parade, featuring thousands of soldiers along with tanks and other military vehicles to showcase

782-400: The grand scale', while Aldo Rossi called it 'Europe's last great street.' Since German reunification most of the buildings, including the two towers, have been restored. The boulevard developed into a commerce-centre in the GDR. It also served the ideological function of introducing visitors to the culture of its "socialist sister states". Commerce was a mixed experience for visitors from

816-493: The new Fire Director of Berlin. In 1993/94, due to the high volume of urban traffic and the numerous new measures to calm the increase, new vehicle concepts were tested in the city districts. The firefighting vehicle LHF 16/12 City, short "City", was 2.2 m shorter, 20 cm narrower; and therefore, more agile than the conventional LHF 16 of the Berlin Fire Brigade. After the successful testing phase, 41 vehicles of this type were ordered from 1994 to 1997. On New Year's Eve 2000 there

850-514: The north-west of Berlin in the district of Berlin-Reinickendorf . Another training location is situated in an office complex in Berlin-Tegel. In particular, medical training and the training of station officers and incident commanders are carried out there. There are advanced plans to relocate the Berlin Fire and Rescue Service Academy to the area of the former Berlin TXL -Airport. Berlin has

884-476: The power and the glory of the communist government. De-Stalinization led to the renaming of the street, after the founder of Marxism , in late 1961. Since the collapse of Eastern European communism in 1989/1990, renaming the street back to its prewar name Große Frankfurter Straße has periodically been discussed, so far without conclusive results. The boulevard later found favour with postmodernists , with Philip Johnson describing it as 'true city planning on

918-474: The reunited city from West and East in 2018. According to § 3 of the Feuerwehrgesetz Berlin, also FwG Berlin, (lit. 'Fire Brigade Act Berlin'), the Berlin Fire Brigade has been commissioned to: fight fire, prevent danger, preventive fire protection, disaster protection and emergency services. The Freiwllige Feuerwehr (Engl: volunteer fire department ) of the Berlin Fire Brigade are members of

952-401: The revetments of the facades which contain often equally, traditional Berlin motifs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . Most of the buildings are covered by architectural ceramics . By 1989 half the tiles on the outer facades of these buildings had fallen off, necessitating sheltering structures over the sidewalks in some places to protect pedestrians. A monumental Stalin statue presented to

986-434: The term "Stalin's bathroom" had actually been in common use during the GDR period, Andreas Kopietz, a journalist at the newspaper, published an article admitting he had invented the phrase and identifying himself as the original anonymous Misplaced Pages editor, allowing the record to be set straight. The boulevard is referenced under its former name, the Stalinallee, in the satirical poem " Die Lösung " by Bertolt Brecht about

1020-720: The term Feuerlöschpolizei (lit. 'Firefighting Police') was introduced for all Prussian fire brigades. The fire brigades throughout the German Reich were placed under the Ordnungspolizei , abbreviated Orpo (lit. 'Order Police'), in 1938. These Brigades were called the Feuerschutzpolizei (lit. 'Fire Protection Police'). The previously red fire vehicles, blue uniforms and fire service ranks were replaced by green fire vehicles, green uniforms and police ranks. They were issued firearms and batons. With few exceptions,

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1088-492: Was a total failure of the IT control center, including the fallback level. For several hours it was not possible to place emergency calls. The vehicles were sent on patrols. There was only a marginal connection with the so-called Year 2000 problem. The affected operational control system FIS was replaced in 2000 by the more modern IGNIS and in 2017 by its successor IGNIS-Plus. In May 2006, Fire Director Albrecht Broemme became president of

1122-482: Was carried out by the German company Siemens & Halske . The innovation connected the headquarters at the Molkenmarkt with 24 fire stations and all police stations within the city. In 1854 the very first newly built fire station was opened, two years later a new water supply network with 1,520 hydrants went into operation in Berlin. Scabell retired in 1875 and was succeeded by Gustav Witte. In 1879 together, with

1156-532: Was the ambulance service of Berlin. Since then, the West Berlin Fire Brigade has also been responsible for emergency medical services. In East Berlin, rescue and emergency medical services were carried out by the rescue office independently of the fire brigade until reunification. Since the early 1980s, the West Berlin fire brigade has repeatedly been involved in May riots in Berlin-Kreuzberg . A fire truck from

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