Local humanitarian assistance

civil protection

crisis management team

An event in which the life or health of a large number of people or the natural basis of life or important material assets are endangered or damaged

to such an unusual extent that the danger can only be averted or the disruption can only be prevented

and eliminated if the authorities, organizations and institutions involved in disaster protection, act to avert danger under the uniform leadership and direction of the disaster protection authority.

• Winter of starvation 1946/47

• ICE Train accident 1998

• Heavy snowfalls in Münster an power black out 2005

• flood Ahrtal 2021

Man-made-disaster:

•Societal e.g. war, conflict, riot, terrorism, crime

• Economical e.g. financial/currency crisis, recession

• Technological e.g. industrial accidents, engineering

• Environmental e.g. waste disposal, toxic/hazardous materials

Hybrid disaster:

Characteristics of both man-made and natural disasters

• floods

• fire

• climate change

Natural disaster:

• Geophysical e.g. earthquake, tsunami, volcano, rockfall,

• Meteorological e.g. storms, lightning

• Hydrological e.g. flood, rockfall, landslide, subsidence

• Climatological e.g. heat/cold wave, drought, wild fire

• Biological e.g. epidemic (viral, bacterial, parasitic, fungal), insect infestation

• Extra-terrestrial meteorite, asteroid

• Climate extremes

• Conflicts

• Economic Crises

• passenger information systems

• warning apps

• cell brodcast

• information screens

• siren signals

Divided into different segmens:

• civil defense (Zivilschutz)

  -> Government

  THW, Bundeswehr, Bundespolizei, BBK

• disaster protection (Katastrophenschutz)

  -> States -> districts, independent cities, municipalities

  DRK, Malteser, DLRG, Johanniter, Feuerwehr, THW