Facts: - caption: erich hampe in the uniform of technische nothilfe - battles: world war i world war ii - death date: 28 june 1978 - allegiance: german weimar republic -lrb- to 1933 -rrb- nazi germany nazi germany empire german empire -lrb- to 1918 -rrb- germany - commands: technische nothilfe - rank: '' generalmajor '' - awards: german cross in silver iron cross bundesverdienstkreuz - birth date: 17 december 1889 - serviceyears: 1908 -- 45 - name: erich hampe - branch: heer - laterwork: president of the institute for civilian air protection - image: erich hampe 2-13343 . jpg - death place: bonn , west germany - birth place: gera , german empire Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of erich hampe .
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erich hampe -lrb- 1889 -- 1978 -rrb- was a german soldier and the first president of the federal agency for civil defense -lrb- bundesanstalt fur zivilen luftschutz -rrb- , general of the technical troops in world war ii and vice chief of the technische nothilfe as well as an editor and the author of the official history of german civil defense during the second world war . .