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At work in almost every community, country or town, East and West.

Useful, ubiquitous, meaningful, modern - this is what the organisation is all about!young fire fighters on practise

The german youth fire service was founded in Berlin in 1964 as the youth organisation of the German Fire Service Federation (DFV). Already decades ago there were a few youth fire brigades in Germany. The first group was established in 1885 on the Frisian island Föhr.

Dates and facts: 

• public recognized, nonprofit youth organisation
• 240.000 members at the age of 10 to 18 years
• 17.600 youth fire brigades

Organisation chart:

• voluntary federal youth direction
• central office in berlin - with six full time employees
• seven special committees - including the federal youth forum and the editorial office of the organisation magazine "Lauffeuer"
• 16 countries with their youth fire organisations