Technische Nothilfe

Technical Emergency Corps

Technische Nothilfe
Standard of the TN during the Third Reich
Civil defence overview
Formed	30 September 1919 (1919-09-30)
Dissolved	May 1945
Superseding agency	Technisches Hilfswerk
Jurisdiction	Weimar Republic (to 1933)  Nazi Germany
Civil defence executive	Chef der Technischen Nothilfe

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.