In this review is given a summary of some proportional counters developed for the resonance-electron Mössbauer spectroscopy (REMS), in which they are used to detect electrons resonantly emitted by the internal conversion and Auger processes after the nuclear resonance absorption of incident γ rays. A major concern is to introduce techniques for operating the proportional counter at temperatures from 1.75 K to 1100 K; different contrivances for counter structure and filling gas are inevitable to operate the proportional counter in different temperature regions. Some applications of REMS combined with the proportional counter to investigations on the field of crystal growth are also reviewed.