21st January 1944
B&M Freiwillige Feuerwehr
Registered envelope sent from Brünn to Prague. The duel language senders address is hand-stamped to the reverse reads, 'Freiwillige Feuerwehr/ Brünn-Bohonitz/ Sbor dobrovolnych hasiču/ Brno-Bohumoe' (Volunteer Fire Brigade, Brno-Bohonice). Ref: 21.01.1944
Freiwillige Feuerwehr
(Volunteer Fire Brigade)
From Wikipedia:
The first volunteer fire brigade in Czechoslovakia is considered to be the volunteer group formed in 1851 by the retired Austrian officer Ferdinand Leitenberger in Reichstadt (today Zákupy), Bohemia. The first municipal fire department was founded in Prague in 1853. The structures were historically similar to those in Austria until after the Second World War. It was only after the Second World War that the structures were fundamentally changed with the re-establishment of Czechoslovakia. In 1953, the fire service was placed under the Ministry of the Interior by Law No. 35/1953. A basic military structure was created. In 1958 the organisation became somewhat decentralised.
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