Erich Hampe

Erich Hampe

Erich Hampe in the uniform of Technische Nothilfe
Born 17 December 1889
Gera, German Empire
Died 28 June 1978 (aged 88)
Bonn, West Germany
Allegiance German Empire German Empire (to 1918)
Germany Weimar Republic (to 1933)
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Service/branch Heer
Years of service 1908–45
Rank Generalmajor
Commands held Technische Nothilfe
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards German Cross in Silver
Iron Cross
Bundesverdienstkreuz
Other work President of the Institute for Civilian Air Protection

Erich Hampe (1889–1978) was a German soldier and the first president of the Federal Agency for Civil Defense (Bundesanstalt für zivilen Luftschutz), General of the Technical Troops in World War II and Vice Chief of the Technische Nothilfe as well as an editor and author.

Life

He was born 1889 in Gera and joined the German Army in 1908. He fought in World War I and retired in 1919 as Hauptmann on the reserve list. In the beginning of 1920 in the Weimar Republic, he worked as Vice Chief of the Technische Nothilfe (TN). After being dismissed from TN in 1941, he returned to the Wehrmacht and served as General of the Technical Troops. In the public service of West Germany in 1950, he started with the reconstruction of the Technisches Hilfswerk, continued as head of division in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and finally as first President of the Federal Agency for Civil Defense (Bundesanstalt für zivilen Luftschutz). Hampe died in 1978 in Hangelar near Bonn.

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