Commissar - Other Uses

Other Uses

The term commissary was used by the British and U.S. military to denote an officer in charge of supplying an army with provisions and equipment( and Commissariat).

A similar term in French describes the equivalent of the rank of Major both in the army of the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution. Such officials were not military officers but reported back to the political authorities: the king and the National Assembly (French Revolution), respectively.

Various historical German states have used an equivalent title, Reichskommissar (a compound of Reich and the German Kommissar), for several administrators who held responsibility over a territory or area of government.