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1964 until 1985 - My time in Hamburg |
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| A Mog in my age sometimes need help to refresh his memories, so I asked my former superiors for help.
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| I have to thank Claus Tiedemann of "Hamburger Feuerwehr Historiker e.V." who was a great help in
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| this research and allowed me to show this documents and pictures
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| Licences number: HH-8651
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| A vehicle of "Katastrophenschutz des Bundes" (Federal Civil Defence Authority)
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| First registration on 08 September 1964
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| 08 September 1964 until 23 September 1971:
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| LSHD - Luftschutzhilfsdienst in Hamburg
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| Mileage reading on 23 September 1971: 2.200 km
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| 23 September 1971 until 21 February 1985:
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| Fire department FF Groß Flottbek in Hamburg
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| 22 February until 13 August 1985:
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| Mothballed in a central government depot in Hamburg-Rissen
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| Laying up on 09 August 1985
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| Mileage reading on 13 August 1985: 9.792 km
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| Me during active duty with FF Groß Flottbek:
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| This picture was taken twenty years ago, 12 May 1984, in the port of Hamburg during an civil defence
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| exercise which included units from fire departments, THW and other organizations. The sign declaring
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| me a member of the fire department of Groß Flottbek is clearly visible in my right front window.
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| I was one of the first generation of civil defence vehicles in Germany, which were aquired in great
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| numbers for the newly formed Luftschutzhilfsdienst (LSHD). In Hamburg, there have been 130 TLF 8.
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| The Luftschutzhilfsdienst was an organization, that existed up to 1972 parallel to the THW. In this time
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| rescue was the main task of the THW and fire fighting, ABC-counterwarfare and telecommunication
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| services in times of war and civil emergencies were tasks of the LSHD. Normally the LHSD was to be
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| used only in times of war but LSHD units were also deployed during disaster situations, e.g. the
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| spring tide in Hamburg in 1962.
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| LSHD units were organized in companies that consisted of three task units and one supply unit and
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| were housed in centralized garrisons. With the exception of the vehicles from the fire department
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| all vehicles of the LSHD were painted in RAL 7008, but we had our red coats in RAL 3000 from the
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| beginning. From 1964 to 1971 I was in a state of readiness but didn't march out even once, just for
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| a few exercises on training I got to leave the garrison. Me and my comrades were billeted in one
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| of the two central depots in Hamburg-Rissen or Hamburg-Langenhorn (Heidberg). A lot of Unimog
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| 404 S, but also Magirus, Borgward and Hanomag, did wait for their deployment in this depot.
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| Fortunatly Hamburg was spared by desaster situations and it was a boring time.
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| These two brothers-in-arms of me from my time with the "Katastrophenschutz Hamburg" are pensioned
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| also today and in a museum of the "Hamburger Feuerwehr Historiker e.V." The left one, a TLF 8 like
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| me, still has the coat-of-arms of the LSHD on it's door, a circled blue-yellow triangel with the letters ZS
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| in the center. The other one is a EF (Entgiftungsfahrzeug, decontamination vehicle) with EA (Entgiftungs-
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| anhänger, decontamination trailer) of the ABC-counterwarfare units, painted in RAL 2004.
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| Due to financial reasons and due to a lack of personel the LSHD was dismanteled in 1972, personel
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| and vehicles were transfered to the remaining services Feuerwehr, THW, DRK, ASB, MHD und JUH.
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| During this reorganization I was transfered to the fire department of Groß Flottbek in the west of Hamburg.
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| I remained there up to 1985 and was mothballed again. This time for half a year together with other TLF8
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| in one of the central depots of the FRG, until I got my honourable discharge.
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| First registration in 1964 and laying up in 1985 are shown in my vehicle registration document:
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| The wings of vehicles of the firefighter departments were painted black in the sixties. At the beginning of
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| the seventies the wings of fire-engines were repainted in white to give them a higher visibility. Most of my
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| comrades have white wings nowadays, but somehow they did miss me, and I thank god for it.
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| Yours Freyhaven
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| ...reminiscensing about Hamburg
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| PS: NEW: click some of the pictures to view them in bigger size
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