A governor general is the highest civil servant of a large area, in particular in the colonial context used.

• Russia: in the Russian Zarenreich the highest official of a province or also the superior of several province governors.

• Great Britain: in the Commonwealth OF nation the representative of the British crown in the independent countries (the former Dominions), as far as they did not accept a republican system of government.

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• France: in colonial areas, e.g. in the larger overseas possessions of France, the highest civil servant.

• German Reich: the highest representative of the German Reich in the Generalgouvernement existing from 1939-1945 in occupied Poland. Only governor general was Hans's franc.

• India: Highest representative of the British crown, whatever led additionally the title viceroy of India (1859 - 1947)

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