Fire buff

A fire team is in Germany an association for the promotion of the local fire protection that exists in some regions, in addition to the respective municipal volunteer fire brigade. Membership of the Fire Department is independent from participation in the respective volunteer fire department in the rule. In general, however, the forces of a place are the existence of a fire brigade association simultaneously members of both organizations. While developed in the other Länder firefighters associations only in the recent past, the fire brigades were organized in Bavaria since the early days in 1870 in the form of a fire association. The resulting dual nature of fire departments in Bavaria as the same club and municipal fire protection system was up to the publication of the Bavarian Fire Brigade Act ( BayFwG ) in 1985, a legally difficult terrain. Only the BayFwG defined the delineation of the firefighters association of the municipal facility. However, As a result, in Bavaria each municipal fire department also has a fire brigade.

Firefighters associations are financed usually by donations and membership fees. Beaches and local governments have over their fire fighters required to make allowances for missions and special services. Some of these are however paid to the Fire Department. Of these funds are often acquisitions in terms of camaraderie, but also given grants for vehicle, building and equipment purchases. In addition, fire brigade associations can be considered financially in the club funding from their local authority.

The fire service clubs are in the different regions have different names. In the central and southern German states, they usually bear the same name as the volunteer fire department, whose support and encouragement they serve; they are then called thus as the municipal fire department itself also " volunteer fire department ... ( place name ) " and, if they are registered in the register, " volunteer fire department ... ( place name ) eV ". In northern Germany, on the other hand, the term " fire department patrons ... ( place name )" or " fire brigade ... ( place name ) ," turn "eV" depending on registration with or without the addition, the usual. From a legal stand against the experienced in central and southern Germany behalf practice concerns, because there is a significant risk that outsiders may differ difficult, whether they are using the fire department as such - that is usually a municipal body without legal personality - or a fire brigade get in touch.

According to the jurisprudence of the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH ), the jurisprudential literature mainly follows is a ( non-registered ) Fire Department before even if the members of the fire department to create a camaraderie checkout. This view is not without controversy, because they faked a club that no one has really established knowingly and willingly. However, even if it is the Federal Fiscal follows basically so conceals at least in those states no non- registered association, but a municipal fund behind the fellowship fund, in which the fellowship fund in a public fire brigade statute, so in the statute of the municipal fire department itself, is regulated. To this end, in addition to Baden- Württemberg and Saxony also include Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ( so now Stralsund District Court, judgment of 7 April 2011 - File number: 6 O 383/10, published by Juris, there Note 18 ) and Schleswig -Holstein. Since, however, with the exception of Baden-Württemberg in so far lacks a clear legal regulation, this is for the other three countries mentioned not without controversy (see the contribution by Hauke ​​Shepherd and Shepherd Hagen: The legal nature of volunteer fire departments in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, in: AFR 2007, pp. 15 ff mw N.; further the same: the volunteer fire departments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the private legal relations, in: AFR 2007, pp. 545 ff; Hauke ​​Shepherd, primary and secondary powers of the fire department in fire and emergency response applications, KommJur 2008, 207, 208 [ footnote 2] ).

• Organizational form in the fire service
• Club Type