Principal commissioner
The official title of Principal Commissioner was the officially appointed representative of the emperor at the Diet and other meetings of the Holy Roman Empire between the 16th and the end of the 18th century.
Due to the development of the Reichstag from an irregularly convened meeting of high dignitaries and officials of the Reich with the king or emperor to a permanent envoy congress, the "Perpetual Reichstag" , only a few princes were able to attend the imperial assemblies in person due to their official duties to participate. For this reason, the representation of a stand or its vote by another stand or a specially appointed person became the rule in the course of the early modern period .
While the representatives of smaller imperial princes could be of the lower nobility or even bourgeoisie, in most cases only high dignitaries of the empire were entrusted with the representation of the emperor. B. the Archbishop of Salzburg , since he was not already a member of the Electoral Council . The principal commissioner sat on behalf of the emperor and a. the joint sessions of the entire Reichstag (the so-called Reichsrat ) and was mostly supported in its work by one or two so-called Konkommissaren . In the name of the monarch, he handed over the imperial proposition to the Directory of the Reichstag, which read it out and published it.
List of Imperial Principals Commissioners
| 1663-1668: | Count Guidobald von Thun and Hohenstein , Prince Archbishop of Salzburg (* 1616; † 1668) |
| 1668–1669: | Count David Ungnad von Weissenwolff (* 1604; † 1672) |
| 1669–1685: | Count Marquard II. Schenk von Castell , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt (* 1605; † 1685) |
| 1685–1687: | Count Sebastian von Pötting , Prince-Bishop of Passau (* 1628; † 1689) |
| 1688-1691: | Margrave Hermann of Baden-Baden (* 1628; † 1691) |
| 1692-1700: | Prince Ferdinand August von Lobkowitz , Duke of Sagan (* 1655; † 1715) |
| 1700-1712: | Cardinal Johann Philipp von Lamberg , Prince-Bishop of Passau (* 1652; † 1712) |
| 1712-1716: | Prince Maximilian Karl von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (* 1656; † 1718) |
| 1716-1725: | Cardinal Christian August von Sachsen-Zeitz , Prince Archbishop of Gran, Primate of Hungary (* 1666; † 1725) |
| 1726-1735: | Prince Frobenius Ferdinand zu Fürstenberg-Meßkirch (* 1664; † 1741) |
| 1735-1741: | Prince Joseph Wilhelm zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (* 1699; † 1762) |
| 1741-1745: | Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn and Taxis (* 1704; † 1773) |
| 1745-1748: | Prince Joseph Wilhelm zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (* 1699; † 1762) |
| 1748–1773: | Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn and Taxis (* 1704; † 1773) |
| 1773–1797: | Prince Karl Anselm von Thurn and Taxis (* 1733; † 1805) |
| 1797-1806: | Prince Karl Alexander von Thurn and Taxis (* 1770; † 1827) |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Franz von Krones: Ungnad von Weißenwolf, David . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 305 f.
- ↑ http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ferdinand_August_von_Lobkowicz_%281655-1715%29