Technische Nothilfe
| Technische Nothilfe | |
Standard of the TN during the Third Reich | |
| Civil defence overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 30 September 1919 |
| Dissolved | May 1945 |
| Superseding Civil defence | |
| Jurisdiction | Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany |
| Civil defence executive | |
Technische Nothilfe (abbreviated as TN, T.N, T.H, Tech Nh, TeNo, TENO; lit. 'Technical Emergency Corps') was a German organisation. It began as a strikebreaker organisation after the First World War, but developed into a volunteer emergency response unit. During the Nazi period TN became in charge of technical civil defence.