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HADIR Differdingen
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As early as 1830, the Bern hospitals had a travel cart for transporting island patients to the Aargau baths. Starting in 1870, Christian MIESEN made the production of large-scale tour wagons in Bonn, soon followed by the first paramedics for horse-riding. In 1899, the "Frankfurter Freiwillige RettungsGesellschaft" replaced their mobile carriers with horse-drawn carriages. Other cities were hesitant: a city like Bielefeld did not make its first horse-drawn ambulance until 1907.
In 1903, for the first time, the city of Luxembourg seems to have sought a public regulation of the transport of the sick and injured and to have obtained cost estimates. In the city council was at the beginning of 1903 (Saturday 17.1.1903) discussed on the subject. In the summer of 1903 a loan was granted:
"Luxembourg, 30 June. Municipal council meeting of Saturday. Prior to entering the agenda, the municipal council, at the request of Mr. Probst, approved a loan of CHF 1,250 for the purchase of an ambulance car "(Obermoselzeitung, 30 June 1903).
In 1905 the car was available: Reinhard / Stadtgrund, a worker in the glove factory Alb. Reinhard / Stadtgrund, was shocked yesterday afternoon at about 2 o'clock in the factory during work and died on the spot, and the corpse immediately became dead brought to his apartment in the ambulance "(Ardenner Bauer, 15.7.1905).
From a statement of costs from the year 1914 it may be concluded that this ambulance was already equipped with rubber tires before the First World War:
13.6.1914: "Voté d 'un crédit de frs 1050.- pour le répplacement des bandages usés de caoutchouc of the rue de derriere de la voiture d'ambulance" (Conseil fol 30 r).
At the beginning of the First World War, motorization was still in its infancy for the army - the medical services of both the German and the French army initially moved into the field with horse and wagon.
The smelters in the south of the country had early ambulance - horse cabs to cart their injured workers to the factory hospitals. From Differdingen the trip went in principle to Niedercorn to the HADIR factory hospital. According to an oral tradition, the first patient transported in this car suffered from a perforated cecum:
«Differdange, July 21st. He was immediately taken to the hospital by ambulance. The skull is shattered and the brain is exposed. His condition is life threatening. An hour before, the ambulance had transported another, but only slightly injured, worker to the hospital »(Escher Tageblatt, 21.7.1913).
A picture taken around 1921 is presented. From right to left:
- the nurse resp. "Paramedics" Walter KLEIN husband of Frieda Kunz from Obercorn, whose daughter is the German commercial attaché Dr. med. Heinrich Diehl married, who lived his life in 1949 in Dietz resp. Wetzlar put an end to it by jumping in the near,
- the "gardien" Nicolas BIREN, who was employed by the Schmelz company since 1911. Later he was the chief guard respectively foreman at the ARBED,
- the coachman Michel Meyer, who lived in Eschette and who became Mayor of Folschette during WW2 and who fled to the Reich at the end of the war, where he lived in St. Vith until his death.
The men pose in front of the ambulance car of HADIR-Werke / Differdange (Hauts-Fourneaux et Aciéries de Differdange, St. Ingbert-Rumelange). The photo from the fund of Niki Goedert is a gift from Erny Hilgert from Differdange.
From 1918, the Luxembourg state put a car ambulance in service. The permission to use the car had to be obtained in each case at the Ministry. In a "Circulaire" of 29.6.1918 the Minister asked for restraint at the request of the car "eu égard à la rareté et a la cherté des pneus" (quoted: A. Praum, Edm. Knaff, Code médical 1919 p. 251 ). The city of Luxembourg followed the example of 1928. In 1937, the municipality of Escher finally managed a motorized ambulance.
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