About IM EINSATZ

IM EINSATZ

IM EINSATZ is the German specialist magazine for civil protection and disaster response, published bi-monthly by the Stumpf + Kossendey Verlagsgesellschaft in Edewecht, Lower Saxony, for the responders who stand ready when the crisis comes. The journal reports exclusively and practice-oriented on everything under discussion in the fields of disaster protection, medical and care services, and rapid-response groups. Each issue delivers action instructions, mission reports with "lessons learned," and a practical pocket card, serving the volunteers and professionals who protect the population in the crises, the floods, and the disasters.

Overview

IM EINSATZ appears every two months as the disaster-protection community's specialist medium: the journal for the volunteers and professionals of the aid organizations, the fire services' disaster-protection units, and the authorities' civil-protection staff who plan for the worst and train for the response. The editorial program is relentlessly practical: the training articles teach the procedures with the clarity the field demands, the mission reports analyze what worked and what didn't with the honesty the learning requires, and the pocket cards provide the on-site reference in the format that fits the uniform. The tone is the responders' own: direct, experienced, and focused on the next mission, never academic and never sensational.

The readership's mission shapes the content: the disaster-protection volunteers who train in their free time, the rapid-response groups that deploy within minutes, and the medical and care services that shelter the affected. The journal's practical aids, from the action instructions to the pocket cards, are designed for the field: the knowledge that the responders carry into the mission.

The Volunteers' Ethos

The volunteers that IM EINSATZ serves embody the German civil protection's distinctive ethos: the citizens who spend their free evenings and weekends training for the missions they hope never come, who leave their families at night when the pager sounds, and who care for the strangers in the shelters after the floods. The aid organizations' hundreds of thousands of volunteers form the disaster response's backbone: the professionals lead, but the volunteers deliver the scale.

The journal honors this ethos: the content never talks down to the volunteers, the mission reports credit the units by name, and the training articles respect the volunteers' limited training time by focusing on what matters. The "lessons learned" approach embodies the volunteers' learning culture: the honest analysis of the missions, the sharing of the experiences across the organizations, and the continuous improvement of the procedures. In a society where the volunteering faces the demographic and the time pressures, IM EINSATZ tells the volunteers that their service matters: the journal is the community's medium, by and for the responders.

History

IM EINSATZ grew from the Stumpf + Kossendey publishing house's emergency-services portfolio: the Edewecht-based specialist publisher, long established in the rescue and fire-service media, created the dedicated disaster-protection title. The journal's development tracked the civil protection's changing challenges: from the Cold War's civil defense to the flood disasters, from the refugee care to the pandemic response, and now to the hybrid threats of cyberattacks, power outages, and disinformation.

The publisher's portfolio includes the sister title BOS Leitstelle Aktuell, serving the control-center community, and the podcast "IM EINSATZ – Der Podcast für den Katastrophenschutz," extending the journal's mission into the audio. The bi-monthly rhythm provides the regular update that the volunteers need between their training sessions.

Coverage and Content

The disaster-protection coverage addresses the core scenarios with the practitioners' detail: the vehicle fleet as the logistical backbone, because without vehicles nothing rolls in the mission, from the closed-convoy planning and the march-leader's tasks to the trailer-driving challenges to the load and hazardous-goods securing; the special and right-of-way regulations that govern the emergency driving; the driver's-license extensions for the trucks with their legal bases and organizational processes; and the crisis scenarios from the cyberattacks to the large-scale power outages to the extreme weather to the targeted disinformation campaigns. The medical and care coverage covers the mass-casualty incidents with the triage consensus implementation, the volunteering at the MANV, and the care of the displaced: the refugee accommodation's burdens on the care personnel and the support structures they need.

The mission reports with "lessons learned" are the journal's signature: the real missions analyzed honestly, the successes celebrated and the failures examined without blame, so that the next units learn from the last. The training articles teach the procedures: the staff service in the fire brigade with its historical roots and its current definitions, and the exercise series documented from the bird's-eye view. The pocket cards distill the knowledge into the field format: the checklists, the procedures, and the reference data in the reference that fits the uniform pocket and survives the mission's chaos.

The Civil Protection

IM EINSATZ serves Germany's civil-protection system: the volunteers of the aid organizations (DRK, ASB, JUH, MHD, DLRG, THW), the fire services, and the authorities who together form the disaster response. The system's strength is the volunteering: hundreds of thousands of citizens who train in their free time to protect their communities in the crises. The journal serves this volunteering: the content respects the volunteers' commitment, teaches the skills they need, and connects the community across the organizations.

The current threat landscape, from the climate-driven extreme weather to the geopolitical tensions, has raised the civil protection's profile: the politicians promise the investments, the public rediscovers the preparedness, and the volunteers face the growing demands. IM EINSATZ covers this moment: the journal for the responders in the era when the disaster protection matters more than it has in decades.

Organization and Ownership

IM EINSATZ is published by the Stumpf + Kossendey Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Rathausstraße 1, 26188 Edewecht, the Lower Saxon specialist publisher for the emergency-services media. The publisher's portfolio covers the responders' information needs: the IM EINSATZ journal for the disaster protection, the BOS Leitstelle Aktuell for the control-center community, and the podcast "IM EINSATZ – Der Podcast für den Katastrophenschutz" for the audio audience. The business model is the specialist-publishing model: the subscriptions from the aid organizations, the fire services, and the individual responders, and the advertising from the emergency-services industry's manufacturers and suppliers, from the vehicle builders to the equipment makers to the training providers.

Digital Presence

The skverlag.de portal carries the IM EINSATZ digital presence: the current issue's content, the subscription ordering, and the sample-issue requests. The podcast "IM EINSATZ – Der Podcast für den Katastrophenschutz" extends the journal into the audio: the episodes on the control centers as critical infrastructure and the other specialist topics. The rettungsdienst-shop.de connects the publishing to the equipment: the readers order the professional gear alongside the journal.

For Germany's disaster-protection community, IM EINSATZ is the specialist medium that takes the volunteering seriously: the bi-monthly journal with the action instructions, the mission reports with their honest lessons, and the pocket cards for the field, serving the responders who protect the population when the crisis comes. In the era of the growing threats, from the floods to the pandemics to the hybrid scenarios, the journal's mission matters more than ever: informing the volunteers and professionals of the civil protection, one issue, one lesson, one pocket card at a time, so that the next mission succeeds because the last one was understood.