Technische Nothilfe | |
Civil defence overview | |
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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.