History of the Germans

A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays

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Education Society & Culture History

177 Episodes

  1. Ep. 167 - The Great Western Schism - Part 2

    Published: 10/24/2024

  2. Ep. 166 – The Great Western Schism – Part 1

    Published: 10/17/2024

  3. Ep. 165 - Wenceslaus the Lazy and Ruprecht of the Empty Pocket

    Published: 10/10/2024

  4. Season 9 - The Reformation before the Reformation - Season Opener

    Published: 10/3/2024

  5. Germany at War - A Guest Episode from Not so Quiet on the Western Front

    Published: 9/26/2024

  6. Charles IV. A Portrait of a Medieval Ruler - Interview with Václav Žůrek

    Published: 9/19/2024

  7. Ep. 163 – Succession and Legacy

    Published: 9/12/2024

  8. Ep. 162 – Schisms and Deals

    Published: 9/5/2024

  9. Ep. 161 – A Luxemburg Empire

    Published: 8/29/2024

  10. Ep. 160 – The Golden Bull of 1356

    Published: 8/22/2024

  11. Ep. 159 – The Rise to Imperial Power, Charles IV journey to Rome

    Published: 8/15/2024

  12. Ep. 158 – Prague – The New Rome? Karl IV’s great plans for his capital city

    Published: 8/8/2024

  13. Ep. 157 – The Black Death and other Calamities

    Published: 8/1/2024

  14. Ep. 156 – What Price a Crown - Karl IV fight for the throne

    Published: 7/25/2024

  15. Ep. 155: The Youth of the Emperor Karl IV

    Published: 7/18/2024

  16. Ep. 154 - The Blind King John of Bohemia

    Published: 7/11/2024

  17. Ep. 153 – The Rise of the city of Nürnberg

    Published: 6/27/2024

  18. Ep.152 - The (not so) Ugly Duchess Margarete Maultasch

    Published: 6/13/2024

  19. Ep. 151 – The Kurverein zu Rhens – featuring William of Ockham

    Published: 6/6/2024

  20. Ep. 150 – The Last Chivalric Battles – Morgarten and Mühldorf

    Published: 5/30/2024

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The podcast that does what it says on the tin: a narrative history of the German people that starts in the year 919 AD and hopes to get all the way to 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. As Gregory of Tours (539-594) said: "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad". HotGPod is now entering its 8th season. So far we have covered: Ottonian Emperors (# 1- 21) - Henry the Fowler (#1) - Otto I (#2-8) - Otto II (#9-11) - Otto II (#11-14) - Henry II (#15-17) - Germany in 1000 (#18-21) Salian Emperors(#22-42) - Konrad II (#22- 25) - Henry III (#26-29) - Henry IV/Canossa (#30-39) - Henry V (#40-42) - Concordat of Worms (#42) Early Hohenstaufen (#43-69) - Lothar III (#43-46) - Konrad III (#47-49) - Frederick Barbarossa (#50-69) Late Hohenstaufen (#70-94) - Henry VI (#70-72) - Philipp of Swabia (#73-74) - Otto IV (#74-75) - Frederick II (#75-90) - Epilogue (#91-94) Eastern Expansion (#95-108) The Hanseatic League (#109-127) The Teutonic Knights (#128-137) The Interregnum and the early Habsburgs (#138 ff - Rudolf von Habsburg (#139-141) - Adolf von Nassau (#142) - Albrecht von Habsburg (#143) - Heinrich VII (#144-148) - Ludwig the Bavarian (#149-153) - Karl IV (#154-