Hello everybody! You can find additional information on the Technische Nothilfe during the Weimar Republic in a Ph.D.-thesis from 2006, on which you can find information here: http://andreas-linhardt.de/ After the dissolution of the Technische Nothilfe in 1945, during the early years of the Bundesrepublik and the cold war the need for a federal agency for civil protection became obvious. So in 1950, the German federal minister of the interior (and later head of state) Gustav Heinemann mandated Otto Lummitzsch, who had founded the Technische Nothilfe in 1919, to set up such an organisation. This became the Technisches Hilfswerk (THW), today well-known for its disaster control missions. Though they are quite different organisations, there are still some links between the Technische Nothilfe and the THW. The THW also operates a museum, with some informations online at http://www.thw-historische-sammlung.de/htm...__nothilfe.html An interesting point regarding the continuity of symbols in both organisations is the "Nothelferzeichen in Gold" and "Nothelferzeichen in Gold mit Kranz" of the Technische Nothilfe mentioned earlier here - in the THW, there are similar honorary badges called "Helferzeichen in Gold" and "Helferzeichen in Gold mit Kranz" which look quite similar.
