Reichskommissar
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(, 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.
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- German Empire
- Domestic
- Colonial
- In West Africa
- German South-West Africa
- In East Africa
- In Oceania
- Nazi Germany
- Domestic & annexed (ethnically German)
- Saar Territory
- Sudetenland
- Vienna
- Northern and Western Europe
- Norway
- Netherlands
- Belgium and Northern France
- Soviet territories
- Ostland
- Ukraine
- Moskowien
- Kaukasien
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(, 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.
==German Empire== ===Domestic=== 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.
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