Emergency air rescue and patient transport across Germany and Austria
DRF Luftrettung operates 31 helicopter bases across Germany and Austria, dispatching around 40,000 emergency missions annually. The hiring mix is heavily operations-focused (45 ops roles vs. 7 engineering), reflecting the scale and complexity of coordinating flight crews, ground teams, and medical personnel across multiple 24-hour stations. Current projects cluster around workflow optimization—duty scheduling, maintenance workflows, and a new Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation—indicating infrastructure modernization to reduce response times and administrative overhead.
Founded in 1973, DRF Luftrettung is a nonprofit air rescue service providing emergency helicopter and ambulance aircraft transport across German and Austrian airspace. The organization operates 31 stations, 10 of which run 24-hour operations, and maintains nearly 50 years of operational history backed by roughly 900,000 total rescue missions. Core capabilities span helicopter-based emergency response, inter-hospital patient transport, international medical evacuations, and specialized rescue operations including night flights and mountain rescue. The organization employs 501–1,000 staff across pilots, medical personnel, engineering, and support teams, headquartered in Filderstadt, Baden-Württemberg.
DRF Luftrettung operates 31 stations across Germany and Austria, with 10 bases running continuous 24-hour operations. The organization executes approximately 40,000 emergency missions per year and has logged roughly 900,000 total missions since its 1973 founding.
The organization's tech stack centers on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft Office suite, AWS, Azure, GCP, and IT management tools including Intune, Tenable, Configuration Manager, and ManageEngine. A Business Central implementation is currently underway.
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