Thanks to well-established standard procedures for immediate and administrative assistance, the National Territorial Commander's situation centers in Berlin and Bonn were able to deploy the first Bundeswehr forces in the disaster regions very quickly. At the beginning of the flood situation, the cooperation of all actors also revealed deficits in the creation and maintenance of an up-to-date situation picture.
The flood caused by heavy rain in Western and Central Europe in July 2021 is one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. It caused countless damage in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Saarland, Saxony and Thuringia, but particularly hit towns in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate particularly hard. The real “tsunamis” in western Germany eclipsed everything that had ever happened before. Measured in terms of the number of victims, this summer flood of 2021 was the largest natural disaster to hit Germany since the storm surge on the North and Baltic Sea coasts in 1962. Over 220 people died, at least 180 of them in Germany.
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