Feuerschutzpolizei
Polizeiadler | |
| Operational area | |
|---|---|
| Country | Nazi Germany |
| City fire departments | 86 |
| Mobile regiments (1939-1943) | 5 |
| Mobile battalions (1943-1945) | 9 |
| Agency overview | |
| Established | 24 October 1939 |
| Dissolved | 17 July 1945 |
| Employees | 12,217 (1941) within the Germany of 1937 |
| Commissioner | SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Hans Rumpf |
Feuerschutzpolizei (lit. 'Fire Protection Police') was a fire police unit in Nazi Germany and a branch of Nazi Germany's Ordnungspolizei, formed in 1938 when the German municipal professional fire brigades were transferred to the national police. The previously red fire vehicles, blue uniforms and fire service ranks were replaced by green fire vehicles, green uniforms and police ranks.