The Federal Office for Civil Protection is in charge of civil protection in Germany.

Due to our constitution, the Grundgesetz, civil protection is split up in Germany.

The Federal Republic of Gemany is in charge of civil defense. Civil defense occurs in case of war or war-like situations. The Federal States in Germany are in charge of disaster management. Disaster management covers disasters caused by nature, major accidents and other causes not related to war.

For major disasters affecting several Federal States, the states can ask The Federal Republic for help. In this case, The Federal Office for Civil Protection moderates the coordination of the needed help. We are also the first contact for any disaster-related international inquiries, such as the EU Civil Protection Mechanism

Our main tasks are

• Warning
• To promote preparedness
• Risk management
• Crisis management
• Medical civil protection
• Shelters
• Protection of cultural properties according to the Hague Convention

Contact

Please address our international affairs division when you are an international organizations dealing with civil-protection-related tasks.

We ask press members to address our PR colleagues

Citizens and private persons are kindly asked to address our service team

Note

We have just started to build our English website. We are working on localizing as much information as we can. Please do not hesitate to contact us when you encounter any typos or grammar mistakes. We are also looking forward to your feedback. Do you miss any kind of information related to civil protection?

A brief heads-up on the fields we are working on right now:

• Critical infrastructures
• Warning
• Medical civil protection
• Civil military cooperation and NATO
• Construction protection
• Protection cultural property
• CBRN protection