Perpetual Diet of Regensburg

[2] Since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Holy Roman Emperor had been formally bound to accept all decisions made by the Diet.The Emperor was represented by a Principal Commissioner (Prinzipalkommissar), a position that accrued to the Thurn und Taxis family from 1748.[2] However, by the middle of the 18th century, it was largely "dysfunctional"[6] and a "mere congress of diplomats"[5] that produced "no important legislation in political and constitutional matters".[5] The weak institution has been called "a bladeless knife without a handle",[7] and, during the Diet's existence, the Empire increasingly became nothing more than a collection of largely independent states.[8] Following the approval of that final constitutional document, the Diet never met again and its existence ended with the dissolution of the Empire in 1806.
The meeting place of the Diet in the Old Town Hall of Regensburg, as pictured in 2016
Imperial DietRegensburgGermanHoly Roman EmpireBavariaGermanyOttoman EmpirePeace of WestphaliaHoly Roman EmperorRecessTruce of RatisbonImperial EstatesThurn und TaxisHabsburgGerman Mediatisationdissolution of the EmpireGuidobald of ThunSalzburgEichstättPassauHermannBaden-BadenLobkowitzDuke of SaganJohn Philip of LambergMaximilian KarlLöwenstein-Wertheim-RochefortChristian August of Saxe-ZeitzArchbishop of EsztergomPrimate of HungaryFürstenberg-MesskirchFürstenberg-StühlingenAlexander Ferdinand of Thurn and TaxisKarl Anselm of Thurn and TaxisKarl Alexander of Thurn and TaxisWikisourceList of Reichstag participants (1792)Palmer, R. R.