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Concept
Reichskommissar
Summary
(ˈʁaɪçskɔmɪsaːɐ̯, rendered as "Commissioner of the Empire", "Reich Commissioner" or "Imperial Commissioner"), in German history, was an official gubernatorial title used for various public offices during the period of the German Empire and Nazi Germany.
In the unified German Empire (after 1871), Reichskommissars were appointed to oversee special tasks. For instance, there was a Reichskommissar for emigration (Reichskommissar für das Auswanderungswesen) in Hamburg.
Presumably the same title is rendered as "German Imperial Commissioner" in the case of Heligoland, a strategically located once-Danish island in the North Sea, formally handed over to Germany by the UK on 9 August 1890 (under the Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty) and on 15 December 1890 formally annexed to Germany (after 18 February 1891 part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein): 9 August 1890 – 1891 Adolf Wermuth (b. 1855 – d. 1927)
The title of Reichskommissar was used during the German Empire for the governors of most of the Schutzgebiete (a German term literally meaning protectorate, but also applied to ordinary colonies).
in Kamerun (modern-day Cameroon) * Reichskommissare (Commissioners)
14 July 1884 – 19 July 1884 Gustav Nachtigal (b. 1834 – d. 1885)
19 July 1884 – 1 April 1885 Maximilian Buchner (acting) (b. 1846 – d. 1921)
1 April 1885 – 4 July 1885 Eduard von Knorr (acting) (b. 1840 – d. 1920); next came a list of governors until 4 March 1916 when *
in Togo the Reich Reichskommissare since 5 July 1884 proclamation of the Togoland protectorate:
5 July 1884 – 6 July 1884 Gustav Nachtigal (b. 1834 – d. 1885), the Reichskommissar for West Africa *
6 July 1884 – 26 June 1885 Heinrich Randad, the provisional Consul
26 June 1885 – May 1887 Ernst Falkenthal (b. 1858 – d. 1911)
July 1887 – 17 October 1888 Jesko von Puttkamer (acting) (1st time) (b. 1855 – d. 1917)
17 October 1888 – 14 April 1891 Eugen von Zimmerer (b. 1843 – d.
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