Editing Reichskommissar (section)

===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]].

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)