History of the Germans

A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays

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171 Episodes

  1. Ep. 143 – The Murder of a King - Albrecht I von Habsburg.

    Published: 4/4/2024
  2. Ep. 142 - Adolf von Nassau - A Shadow of a King

    Published: 3/28/2024
  3. Ep. 141 - Rudolf von Habsburg Semper Augustus - Allezeit Mehrer des Reiches

    Published: 3/21/2024
  4. Ep. 140 – Rudolf von Habsburg and the Golden King Ottokar II of Bohemia

    Published: 3/14/2024
  5. Ep. 139 – The End of the Interregnum - The Election of Rudolf von Habsburg in 1273

    Published: 3/7/2024
  6. Season 8 From the Interregnum to the Golden Bull (1250-1356): Catch-up Episode

    Published: 2/29/2024
  7. Ep. 137 – The Conversion - Albrecht, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order becomes a protestant duke

    Published: 2/8/2024
  8. Ep. 136 – 13 Years of War - The Prussian League shifts allegiance

    Published: 2/1/2024
  9. Ep. 135 - After Tannenberg - The rule of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia weakened

    Published: 1/25/2024
  10. Ep. 134 – Tannenberg / Grunwald / Žalgiris - A battle of many names

    Published: 1/18/2024
  11. Ep. 133 – The Order of the Order - The organisational structure of the Teutonic Knights

    Published: 1/11/2024
  12. Ep. 132 – The Battle on the Ice - Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein and what really happened

    Published: 1/1/2024
  13. Ep. 131 – The Conquest of Prussia (Part II) - The second, third and n-th Prussian uprising

    Published: 12/21/2023
  14. Ep. 130 – The Conquest of Prussia (Part I) - from Konrad of Masovia's offer to the first Prussian revolts

    Published: 12/14/2023
  15. Ep. 129 - Hermann von Salza - Diplomat and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

    Published: 12/7/2023
  16. Season 7 The Teutonic Knights: Ep. 128 - A Chivalric Order

    Published: 11/30/2023
  17. An Interview with Carsten Jahnke

    Published: 11/23/2023
  18. Ep. 127 - The Art and Culture of the Hanse

    Published: 11/2/2023
  19. Ep. 126 - A Brief History of Bremen

    Published: 10/26/2023
  20. Ep. 125 – The Rise of Hamburg in the 16th century and beyond

    Published: 10/19/2023

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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-