County Military Chief

Until 1881, district military commanders were subordinate to provincial military commanders , who were appointed to command local troops located in the province , and monitored the activities of district military commanders; provincial military commanders were subordinate to the chief of local troops of the military district .

In 1881, local government reform followed, abolishing provincial military commanders, and local brigades were established to manage local troops. The county military commander retained his rights and duties, but was subordinate to the chief of the local brigade in the district where the county is located.

In respect of persons subordinate to him, the district military commander enjoyed the rights of a regiment commander and was the head of local and escort teams in the county, except for those who had special commanders; also acted as commandant and chief of the garrison , if there is no special commandant or senior military commander, and was a member of the local conscription service , served as a representative of the military department in committees, commissions, meetings and other institutions of the civil department, assembled with the participation of representatives of the army ; had supervision of food stores and participated in commissions for the examination of lower ranks in medical institutions .

In peacetime, the duty of the county military commander was assigned:

reception, distribution and sending to the army of recruits ;

accounting of reserve officers , officials , doctors and lower ranks, militia warriors ;

accounting for lower ranks on sick leave;

appeal to training camps for warrant officers of the reserve, lower ranks of the reserve, and militia warriors;

call spares for verification fees;

transfer of lower ranks and prisoners ;

taking measures to charity the lower ranks and their families;

determination of spare extra-long-serving lower ranks for places of free employment;

collection of military statistics;

storage in good condition of military property.

In wartime, the district military commander was in charge of:

the call of officers and lower ranks from the reserve for active service,

the distribution of reserve lower ranks among the troops, according to the mobilization schedule,

sending marching teams

taking militia warriors,

watched the evacuated sick and wounded,

watched the content of prisoners of war .

Each county military commander had a special administration. Controls were divided into three categories: higher, middle and lowest. The management included:

assistant to the county military commander (where he is assigned by state ),

clerk ,

clerks and clerical students, for the training of which clerical classes were established under the departments, at the end of which the students were distributed among military departments and institutions.

In addition, the directorates maintained long-term non-commissioned non-commissioned officers and supernumerary, incapable of military service lower ranks assigned to supervise the property of reserve battalions . At some departments, special chief officers were seconded for two years, who were in charge of the warehouses of the property of the reserve battalions or the transit part of the department.

County military commanders were appointed according to a special candidate list, which included headquarters officers and captains who commanded the company for at least a year in a row or 2 years at intervals or who were in charge at the same time as a separate part of the clerical work in military departments not lower than the senior adjutant or headmaster and withstood a particular test.

By 1910, there were 562 departments of district military commanders (in European Russia - 510, in the Caucasus - 28, in Siberia - 23, in Central Asia - 1). In Finland, the duties of county military commanders were performed by district military commanders (13), subordinate to the Helsingfors commandant. In Turkestan, 22 separate military commanders were subordinate to the chiefs of the 1st and 2nd Turkestan reserve brigades. There were also 16 separate military commanders in Siberia and the Steppe Territory , subordinate to the respective district authorities.

Thus, in total there were 613 military commanders.

In Germany , the local government bodies corresponding to the county military commanders were the commanders of the landver districts . Under the commander of the landver district, there were departments, adjutants, several retired officers, non-commissioned officers and rank-and-file officers. Commanders were appointed from headquarters officers incapable of military service. Obeyed the commanders of the infantry brigades, which, in turn, were subordinate to the commanders of the corps , as a result of which a strong link was established between the command of local troops and the army command.

In Austria-Hungary, the lower bodies of local military command were: for the army, the chiefs of the regimental regiments of manning , for the Austrian landver, the chiefs of the landver regimental sections of manning and for the Hungarian landver , the heads of the Honduran districts and commanders of reserve Honved regiments . The connection between the local and combatant command was established in the person of the corps commander, but then the general command was disconnected, as regards field troops corps commanders were subordinate to the Minister of War, and for landweer affairs - to the commander of the landwehr and the Minister of Zemstvo defense. In Hungary, there was no connection between local and combat units.

In France , recruitment offices were established in each regimental district ( French bureau de recrutement, de mobilization et de réquisition ). The commanders of these bureaus corresponded to the district military commander and were subordinate to the commander of the infantry brigade, and the latter to the chief of the division and corps commander, thereby achieving communication with the combatant command.

• Local military administration
• Military presence
• Military Commissariat

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• A reference book for county military commanders. / Corrected and supplemented (by February 1, 1910) N. Khodorovich. - St. Petersburg: publishing house V. Berezovsky, 1910.
• General list of officer ranks of the Russian Imperial Army. St. Petersburg: Military Printing House, 1909.

• Military district chief // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.