Maximilian von and zu Trauttmansdorff

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Maximilian von and zu Trauttmansdorff

Maximilian , Freiherr von und zu Trauttmansdorff (born May 23, 1584 in Graz , † June 8, 1650 in Vienna ), (from 1635 Reich Count von and zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg ), Freiherr von Gleichenberg , Neuenstadt am Kocher , Negau, Burgau and Totzenbach , Herr zu Teinitz , Knight of the Golden Fleece, Imperial Privy Councilor, Chamberlain and Chief Steward; was an Austrian politician at the time of the Thirty Years War .

Life

Seal of Trauttmansdorff from 1648

He served Emperor Ferdinand II as an advisor and was the first minister under Emperor Ferdinand III.

In 1619 he successfully threaded the alliance between Ferdinand II, who had been deposed from the Bohemian estates, and Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria . The Peace of Nikolsburg (January 6, 1622), in which Gábor Bethlen renounced the Hungarian crown, bears mainly Trauttmansdorff's signature. His diplomatic skills were rewarded with the dignity of count in 1623.

At the Viennese court he was one of Wallenstein's longstanding critics . Trauttmansdorff was sent to Pilsen in December 1633 to persuade Wallenstein to go on a campaign against Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar, who had invaded Bavaria . Wallenstein did not respond to the emperor's request. On his return to Vienna, Trauttmansdorff condemned Wallenstein's attitude and advised the emperor to arrest him.

In 1634 Trauttmansdorff was appointed Minister Ferdinand II and entrusted with the task of negotiating a settlement with the Electorate of Saxony .

Trauttmansdorff concluded the Peace of Prague with Electoral Saxony on May 30, 1635 . This peace agreement, which strengthened the imperial-Catholic position, provided not only the agreement with the Protestant estates, but also the withdrawal of foreign troops from the Reich territory. After France intervened in the conflict, the treaty could hardly have any effect. In 1635, Emperor Ferdinand II gave the town and office of Weinsberg to Count Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff as a thank you for this success , who returned both to Württemberg in 1646.

In 1639 Trauttmansdorf, who had previously had a smaller residence on the Tuchlauben since 1627 , acquired the property later called Palais Trauttmansdorf in Vienna's Herrengasse near the imperial court. (The palace was owned by the family until 1940.)

Maximilian Graf von und zu Trauttmansdorff (portrait in the Friedenssaal of the historical town hall of Münster , 1648)

From 1645 to 1647, the Count's diplomat played a decisive role in bringing about the Peace of Westphalia as the main Habsburg negotiator in the Catholic camp in Münster . In June 1647 he submitted draft treaties on the various issues of the peace negotiations, which were collectively referred to as the "Trauttmansdorffianum". On the part of the imperial estates and also Catholic princes, however, the drafts were not supported in important points. On June 6, 1647, Trauttmansdorf returned to the court disappointed. The work was continued by Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar , who was also active as an imperial plenipotentiary in the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia in Münster in 1645 and was able to lead them to a successful result until 1648.

Trauttmansdorff was married to Countess Sophie Pálffy . The marriage resulted in seven sons and two daughters. Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorf died on June 8, 1650 in Vienna; a genealogical source names June 7th 1650 as the date of death.

A bust of the count is placed in the Walhalla built by King Ludwig I of Bavaria . He helped the Wittelsbach line of Bavaria to become elector.

literature

  • Hermann von und zu Egloffstein:  Trauttmansdorff, Maximilian Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 531-536.
  • Konrad Repgen : Maximilian Graf Trauttmansdorff - chief negotiator of the emperor at the Peace of Prague and the Peace of Westphalia . In: Guido Braun, Arno Strohmeyer (ed.): Peace and Peacekeeping in the Early Modern Age. The Holy Roman Empire and Europe. Festschrift for Maximilian Lanzinner on the occasion of his 65th birthday (series of publications by the Association for Research in Modern History, 36), Münster 2013, pp. 211–228.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Golo Mann : Wallenstein. His Life , Frankfurt am Main 2016 (first 1971), p. 658
  2. ↑ cf. Christoph Kampmann : Europe and the Reich in the Thirty Years War, Stuttgart 2008, p. 161f. The author emphasizes that Trauttmansdorff's drafts already sketched out the Peace of Westphalia. Trauttmansdorff's colleague Isaak Volmar played a key role in the extensive set of rules .
personal data
SURNAME Trauttmansdorff, Maximilian von und zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg, Maximilian Reichsgraf von und zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1584
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1650
Place of death Vienna