How can Germany better arm itself against disasters like the recent floods?
In a special meeting of the interior committee, Seehofer is now campaigning for warnings by SMS.
Berlin - There was resistance to local warnings from the population via SMS in the federal government before the storm disaster in western Germany.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) confirmed in the Bundestag before a special meeting of the Interior Committee that "not everyone has always been enthusiastic about the idea in recent months."
"But I have decided that we will do it and do it, there is absolutely no reasonable argument against it," he added.
Cell broadcasting warning
The President of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Aid (BBK), Armin Schuster, had already commissioned a feasibility study in spring to warn by cell broadcasting.
According to reports, the head of the authority, which is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior, also wanted to convince other departments - including the Ministry of Economics.
With cell broadcasting, a message is sent to cell phone users in a similar way to an SMS - to all recipients who are currently in the radio cell in question. Data protectionists consider this technology, which is already used in many other countries, to be relatively harmless. dpa