Officers, entrepreneurs, career migrants and diplomats: Military entrepreneurs in the early modern era

Update on 20 mars 2020 DUE TO COVID-19 THE CONFERENCE IS CANCELED Research pertaining to the early modern military entrepreneurship is comparatively recent. It was in the 1960s when Fritz Redlich laid down the marker for a historical phenomenology with his masterful study on the “German Military Enterpriser and his Work Force”. A few years ago, the discussion about the defining characteristics of a military entrepreneur gained new attention. The debates about the 18th century fiscal-military state and the contractor state respectively, directed the view away from the “entrepreneur in uniform”. The label Military Entrepreneur now entails all actors providing armies with goods, services and funds. Additionally, various historical subfields have provided pertinent impulses for new approaches. Current issues such as the social mobility or the transnational entanglement of the military entrepreneur are closely related to the turn of the “new” military history to social history and to methodological reflections of the “new” history of diplomacy. Lately, gender history as well as the history of migration have challenged the narrow interpretation of military and warfare as acts of domination and as an exclusively male domain. These multidisciplinary approaches as well as the country-specific differences regarding the shaping and development of military entrepreneurship in early modern Europe provide an incentive to bring together the latest research results in a diachronic and transnational comparison and to point out future research aspects. Programm THURSDAY, 18 June 2020 University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 6, room 205 Section I/1: Chancen und Herausforderungen des Militärunternehmertums: Formen und Akteure Chair: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Jaun 08:45-09:00 Prof. Dr. André Holenstein (University of Bern), Dr. Philippe Rogger (University of Bern) Introduction 09:05-09:50 PD Dr. Astrid Ackermann (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena) Infrastrukturen des Krieges. Der Militärunternehmer Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar (1604-1639) 09:55-10:40 Dr. Philippe Rogger (University of Bern) Festung und Heer versorgen. Logistische Herausforderungen, "private" Investments und merkantiles Beziehungsnetz von Hans Ludwig von Erlach (1595-1650) 10:40-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:45 M.A. Sébastien Dupuis (University of Bern) Les enjeux démographiques. L'épineuse question du recrutement destiné à l’entrepreneuriat militaire genevois (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) 11:50-12:35 Prof. Dr. Marian Füssel (Georg-August-University Göttingen) "Einige unehrenhafte Privatpersonen"? Heeresversorger und Kriegsunternehmer als Profiteure des Siebenjährigen Krieges 12:35-14:15 Lunch Section I/2: Chancen und Herausforderungen des Militärunternehmertums: Formen und Akteure Chair: Prof. Dr. Marian Füssel 14:15-15:00 Dr. Nathalie Büsser (University of Zurich) Militärunternehmertum in der Alten Eidgenossenschaft im Kontext familiärer Ökonomien: Geschlecht, Wirtschaft und Verwandtschaft 15:05-15:50 M.A. Jasmina Cornut (University of Lausanne) L'implication des femmes dans l'entrepreneuriat militaire familial en Suisse romande (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) 15:50-16:15 Coffee break 16:15-17:00 Prof. Dr. Tim Neu (Ruhr-University Bochum) Military Money Men. The Toils of Entanglement and the Social Practice of Remittance Contractors in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire 17:05-17:50 Dr. Alexander Querengässer (Halle an der Saale) "die Mannschaft sey recht gut, doch habe sie ihm viel Geld gekostet". Der Offizier als Kriegsunternehmer im Miles Perpetuus KEYNOTE University of Bern, Hauptgebäude, Hochschulstrasse 4, Kuppelraum (room 501), 18:15-19:15 Prof. Dr. David Parrott (University of Oxford) Military Enterprise and Civil War: Private Armies and Warfare in France during and after the Fronde, 1648-1659 19:15-20:00 Public Apéro FRIDAY, 19 June 2020 University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 6, room 205 Section II/1: Märkte, Netzwerke, Partnerschaften Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Windler 08:15-09:00 Dr. Benjamin van der Linde (Stiftung Hanseatisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, Hamburg) Militär und lokale Wirtschaft in den Niederlanden des 18. Jahrhunderts – Wie funktionierte der Markt für Militärobjekte in der "first modern economy"? 09:05-09:50 Dr. John Condren (University of Oxford) A Hub of Political Intrigue and Financial Exchange: Geneva, 1685-1709 09:55-10:40 Prof. Dr. Michael Martoccio (University of Oxford) A Hub without Spokes: Genoa in the War of Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 10:45-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:45 Dr. Jeanette Kamp (University of Oxford) Between Amsterdam and the Hague: Military Solicitors in the Dutch Republic 11:50-12:35 Prof. Dr. Peter Wilson (University of Oxford) The 'Market' for Foreign Military Labour in Early Modern Europe 12:35-14:15 Lunch Section II/2: Märkte, Netzwerke, Partnerschaften Chair: Dr. Philippe Rogger 14:15-15:00 Prof. Dr. Rafael Torres Sánchez (University of Navarra) Contractor State and Military Entrepreneurs. Public-Private Mercantile Partnerships 15:05-15:50 Prof. Dr. Guy Rowlands (University of St Andrews) Officers, Officials and Entrepreneurs: the Corps Royal d’Artillerie and the Mobilisation of Resources during the Reign of Louis XIV 15:50-16:15 Coffee break 16:15-17:00 Prof. Dr. André Holenstein (University of Bern) Der Nutzen der Neutralen im Krieg. Das Corpus helveticum als paradigmatischer Fall EXCURSION FOR INVITED GUESTS 18:00-19:00 Guided tour and Apéro Jegenstorf Castle SATURDAY, 20 June 2020 University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 6, Raum 205 Section III: Diplomatie und Patronage Chair: Prof. Dr. André Holenstein 08:15-09:00 Prof. Dr. Lucien Bély (University of Paris-Sorbonne) La représentation diplomatique face à l’entreprise de guerre 09:05-09:50 Lic. phil. Katrin Keller (University of Bern) Eine Karriere vor der Karriere? Zur Entstehung der "Kreatur" Peter Stuppa (1621-1701) 09:55-10:45 Lic. phil. Julien Grand (University of Bern) La famille de Besenval face à la France: une fidélité inévitable? 10:45-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:45 M.A. Cécile Huber (University of Bern) Im Orbit des Sonnenkönigs? Die Zuger Gardekompanie der Militärunternehmerfamilie Zurlauben (1650-1750) 11:50-12:35 Dr. des. Benjamin Ryser (University of Bern) Intergenerationalität als Herausforderung. Die weitreichenden Konsequenzen der Konversion von Johann Jakob I. von Erlach (1628-1694) 12:35-13:00 Prof. Dr. Regula Schmid (University of Bern) Commentary End of conference