• Thumbnail for Technisches Hilfswerk
    The Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk (German: [ˈtɛçnɪʃəs ˈhɪlfsˌvɛʁk] , (THW) pronounced [teːhaːˈveː] , English: Federal Agency for Technical Relief)...
    25 KB (1,765 words) - 00:00, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ehrenzeichen des Technischen Hilfswerks
    Ehrenzeichen des Technischen Hilfswerks) is a German decoration founded in 1975. It is awarded by the Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) and is approved by the...
    3 KB (324 words) - 11:30, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Schwalmstadt
    Schwalmstadt is the largest town in the Schwalm-Eder district, in northern Hesse, Germany. It was established only in 1970 with the amalgamation of the...
    15 KB (1,534 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2024
  • Emergency Management Agency Officers NCO Civil Defence Corps 1972 Technisches Hilfswerk Volunteers Staff The German civil defense was activated in 1939...
    39 KB (471 words) - 21:35, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Technische Nothilfe
    Lummitzsch was requested by the West German government to form the Technisches Hilfswerk (literally: 'Technical Relief') which exists to the present day...
    13 KB (816 words) - 12:23, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hessian fabric
    use. Agencies like the State Emergency Service in Australia and Technisches Hilfswerk in Germany often deploy sandbags, and these are found in the majority...
    15 KB (1,921 words) - 03:28, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conscription in Germany
    birth. Thus, organizations such as the Technical Relief Service (Technisches Hilfswerk, or THW), volunteer fire departments, or other emergency assistance...
    23 KB (2,961 words) - 19:50, 2 October 2024
  • (often an abbreviation of their name) instead of a city code. The Technisches Hilfswerk (German Federal Agency for Technical Relief) uses its abbreviation...
    259 KB (11,841 words) - 23:10, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for DUKW
    supplying lighthouses on remote islands. One DUKW is in use by the Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) of Germersheim in Germany, a civil protection organisation...
    21 KB (2,227 words) - 20:53, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2001 Gujarat earthquake
    Red Cross logistics team World Health Organization US$1.2 million Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) Rehabilitation of Water Supply & Storage for Villages nearby...
    25 KB (2,144 words) - 11:08, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for AquaDom
    the time, described awakening to "a kind of shock wave". Berlin's Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) rescue team mounted a full-scale deployment, completing operations...
    14 KB (1,177 words) - 00:58, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lindau
    headquarters for all the former stations across town, including the Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) unit of Lindau. Property developments connected to the area...
    21 KB (2,408 words) - 11:31, 2 November 2024
  • as fire brigades, police, Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Technisches Hilfswerk - Germany THW), DRK as well as crisis centres and NGOs benefit from...
    24 KB (2,830 words) - 01:18, 29 August 2024
  • 2001 attacks. 2003: Protection of the four members of the German Technisches Hilfswerk (THW – the civil protection organization of Germany) in Baghdad...
    42 KB (4,547 words) - 14:08, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)
    Protection of the Constitution Federal Office of Administration Technisches Hilfswerk Federal Statistical Office of Germany Federal Office of Civil Protection...
    16 KB (1,049 words) - 16:49, 21 October 2024
  • since 4 July 1958 and can be worn on Bundeswehr, Bundespolizei and Technisches Hilfswerk uniforms. In 1993 the DOSB opened an international office called...
    15 KB (1,428 words) - 00:57, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Unimog
    cabin. Unimogs are used by the German emergency management agency Technisches Hilfswerk (THW),(literally Technical Relief Organization), by fire departments...
    65 KB (8,005 words) - 16:04, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hurricane Katrina
    Mexico, Singapore, and Germany sent supplies, relief personnel (like Technisches Hilfswerk), troops, ships and water pumps to aid in the disaster recovery...
    172 KB (17,788 words) - 01:51, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cochem
    Verein e. V. Spielvereinigung Cochem 1912 e. V. (playing union) Technisches Hilfswerk (THW), Cochem chapter Tanzgruppe "Moselglück" (dancing) Turnverein...
    44 KB (5,404 words) - 14:40, 20 August 2024
  • Minister of Interior to members of the Bundeswehr, Bundespolizei, Technisches Hilfswerk. These Orders and decorations are all awarded to soldiers of Germany...
    23 KB (219 words) - 08:50, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for German Flood Service Medal (2013)
    may be awarded to the members of the Bundeswehr, Bundespolizei, Technisches Hilfswerk, foreign armed forces, as well as civilians who provided assistance...
    4 KB (402 words) - 18:42, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Civil defense
    managers The Norwegian Civil Defence German Federal Agency for Technical Relief Archived 2014-05-11 at the Wayback Machine – THW Technisches Hilfswerk...
    50 KB (5,717 words) - 08:35, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ohrdruf
    fighters from all over the region, supported by Bundeswehr and Technisches Hilfswerk, large parts could not be saved. Small fires were still burning...
    9 KB (910 words) - 14:19, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Volunteering
    Peace Corps Pro bono Prosocial behavior Subbotnik Scout leader Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) Volunteer health practitioner Voluntary social year Wilson...
    52 KB (5,743 words) - 11:16, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emergency management
    Government controls the German Katastrophenschutz (disaster relief), the Technisches Hilfswerk (Federal Agency for Technical Relief, THW), and the Zivilschutz...
    93 KB (9,982 words) - 08:26, 13 October 2024
  • Constitution, the Federal Office for Information Security, and the Technisches Hilfswerk (Federal Agency for Technical Relief) the Federal Network Agency...
    5 KB (474 words) - 21:36, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radebeul
    were consolidated. The rescue central station also houses the "Technisches Hilfswerk Radebeul". In 2011 the departments counted 136 members in total...
    6 KB (671 words) - 17:22, 30 October 2024
  • on their way to New Orleans[permanent dead link]." Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk. September 8, 2005. Retrieved on June 10, 2006. Staff Writer. "[THW...
    55 KB (5,552 words) - 00:22, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bad Belzig
    relief'). (The Technische Nothilfe was abolished in May, 1945, but the idea was revived by Otto Lummitzsch in the form of the Technisches Hilfswerk in 1950,...
    11 KB (1,145 words) - 05:09, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Idstein
    volunteer fire brigade Idstein youth centre Amtsgericht (court) Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) Sozialpädagogisches Zentrum Kalmenhof (State Welfare Federation...
    38 KB (4,589 words) - 04:01, 19 October 2024