erich hampe (17 december 1889 – 28 june 1978) was a german army officer with the rank of generalmajor, who served as chief of the department for technical troops in okh during world war ii. previously he was 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. during the postwar years, he served as the first president of the federal agency for civil defense ("bundesanstalt für zivilen luftschutz").