Technisches Hilfswerk

The Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk (German:, THW (pronounced), English: Federal Agency for Technical Relief) is the federal civil protection organisation of Germany. It is legally part of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and controlled by the Germanfederal government. 97% of its more than 88,000 members (2025) are volunteers.

The predecessor of THW was the "Technische Nothilfe" (Technical Emergency Relief) (TN), founded in 1919 by Otto Lummitzsch, a pioneer (Combat support) officer, which existed in the Weimar Republic and in Nazi Germany until 1945.