Peace as a process of communication. The Third Party of the Westphalian Peace-Congress

一个没有沟通的和平大会是不可想象的。这似乎是显而易见的，但这是预期研究项目的主要重点。它最重要的目的是通过专注于通信来突出特定的帝国遗产使节群体。更具体地说，该项目遵循的问题是，这个教派间团体，即所谓的第三方或和平党，如何在面临失败威胁的情况下成功地安排和平条件。由于威斯特伐利亚和平大会自1647年夏天以来的一场危机，当时帝国主要特使马克西米利安·格拉夫·冯·特劳特曼斯多夫(1584-1650)的和平建议未能被接受，即所谓的Trauttmansdorffianum，几个月来没有人领导谈判。直到天主教王子约翰·菲利普·冯·舍恩伯恩(Johann Philipp von SchönBorn，1642-1673年)，当时已经是维尔茨堡的亲王主教，在1647年11月成为美因茨的选举人和帝国大法官，情况才改变。他不仅像他的前任那样在忏悔和宗教问题上持温和立场，而且在影响皇帝、法国和瑞典的主要敌人的其他案件中也持开放态度。与巴伐利亚马克西米利安一世(1597-1651年)的天主教选举人、他的特使约翰·克里斯托夫·冯·哈斯朗和约翰·阿道夫·克雷布斯以及新教帝国的主要大使馆如萨克森-阿尔滕堡和布伦施韦格-Lüneburg合作，朔恩伯恩和他最重要的特使约翰·菲利普·冯·沃堡迫使国会在1648年10月签署了《威斯特伐利亚和平条约》。在这样做的过程中，他反对以明斯特为基地的一群顽固的天主教大使馆。由于欧洲和州际对威斯特伐利亚和平的看法占主导地位，第三党完全由帝国庄园组成，直到现在才成为历史研究的重点。这是相当令人好奇的，因为1648年为神圣罗马帝国而不是欧洲建立了持久的国内和宗教和平。面对这一重大愿望，计划中的研究项目基本上有助于将神圣罗马帝国描述为欧洲的和平秩序。

A peace congress without communication is unimaginable. This seems to be obvious but it is nontheless the main focus of the intended research project. Its most important aim is to highlight a specific group of Imperial estates' envoys by concentrating on their correspondence. More specifically, the project follows the question of how this interdenominational group, the so-called Third or Peace Party, arranged peace terms successfully in the face of threatening failure. Due to a crisis of the Westphalian Peace Congress since summer 1647, when the peace proposal of Imperial main envoy, Maximilian Graf von Trauttmansdorff (1584-1650), the so-called Trauttmansdorffianum, failed to be accepted, no one went in the lead of the negotiations for a couple of months. The situation did not change until the catholic prince Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1642-1673), at this time already prince-bishop of Würzburg, became elector of Mainz and Imperial arch-chancellor in November 1647. He did not just have a moderate position in questions of confession and religion, just as his predecessor did, but he was also open-minded in other cases that affected the main enemies of the emperor, France and Sweden. Cooperating with the catholic elector of Bavaria Maximilian I (1597-1651) and his envoys Johann Christoph von Haslang and Johann Adolph Krebs as well as leading embassies of the protestant Imperial estates as Sachsen-Altenburg and Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Schönborn and his most important envoy Johann Philipp von Vorburg forced the congress to sign the Peace of Westphalia in October 1648. In doing so, he opposed a group of intransigent catholic embassies based in Münster. Due to the dominating European and interstate perspective on the Peace of Westphalia, the Third Party, which was utterly staffed by Imperial estates, has not been in the focus of historical research until now. This is quite a curiosity because 1648 established a long-lasting domestic and religious peace not for Europe but for the Holy Roman Empire. Facing this major desideratum the intended research project essentially contributes to characterise the Holy Roman Empire as a peace order in Europe.