Admissions question

As Admissionsfrage or Admissionsstreit refers to the dispute in the years 1645 to 1647 between Emperor Ferdinand III. and the imperial estates , who should represent the Holy Roman Empire in the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia . With the admission of the imperial estates as equal negotiating partners, the system of the Prague Peace of 1635 was finally broken and the peace negotiations at the same time turned into constitutional negotiations.

Content of the dispute

The parties involved in the Thirty Years War , i.e. Emperor Ferdinand III, France and Sweden, agreed on peace negotiations in Münster and Osnabrück in Hamburg at the end of 1641. Both cities and the connecting routes between them were declared a demilitarized zone and all delegations were guaranteed safe passage.

On the basis of the Prague Peace of 1635, Ferdinand assumed that he would be able to conduct separate negotiations with the other crowns and represent the empire alone. Because with this treaty, the imperial power had reached its peak during the war.

literature

• Peter Claus Hartmann: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the Modern Age 1486-1806 , Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-15-017045-1 .
• Axel Gotthard : Das Alte Reich 1495–1806 , Darmstadt 2003. ISBN 3534151186
• Helmut Neuhaus : Das Reich in the early modern times , (Encyclopedia of German History Volume 42) Munich 2003. ISBN 3-486-56729-2 .