Editing Reichskommissar (section)

====In West Africa====
* 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 (representative)|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. 1918)
**14 April 1891 – 4 June 1892 Vacant
**4 June 1892 – November 1893 Jesko von Puttkamer (2nd time); the same stayed on as the first of two ''Landeshauptleute'' ('Land captains'), until 13 August 1895; the second (18 November 1895 – 18 April 1898 [[August Köhler]], b. 1858 – d. 1902) was also the first of the Governors (since 1 January 1905 as German colony of Togoland, until the British conquered it August 1914)