Editing Commandant (section)

==Germany==
In the [[German language]], a military ''Kommandant'' is the commanding officer of a military installation (e.g. a fortress), vehicle, aircraft (the pilot is not always ''Kommandant'', if another crew member has a higher rank) or vessel (e.g. [[U-Boot]]-Kommandant). In contrast to the governor, the fortress commandant of the [[Imperial German Army]] or the [[Wehrmacht]] never had higher but only lower jurisdiction. When subordinate to a governor, his duties were limited to garrison duty. Subordinate to him was the ''Platzmajor''.

In the navy of the [[Bundeswehr]], commandants, including former commandants, wear the special commandant badge. When the commandant is active, it is worn on the right side of the chest above the breast pocket. Former commandants wear it on the left breast under the name tag.

In [[Baden-Württemberg]], [[Bavaria]], [[Austria]], [[Switzerland]] and [[South Tyrol]], the head of the volunteer fire brigade is called the ''Kommandant''. As such, he leads the fire brigade and is responsible for the training and deployment of his local fire brigade. In his own local area, he leads the operations management of all fire brigades as long as this is not taken over by the higher-level operations management.