History of the Germans
A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays
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171 Episodes
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Ep. 124 – Decline and Fall (Part 2) - Jürgen Wullenwever's and Lübeck's last stand
Published: 10/12/2023 -
Ep. 123 – Decline and Fall (Part 1) - Emperors, kings and princes are closing in on Hanse cities
Published: 10/5/2023 -
Ep. 122 – Calamitous Victories open the Baltic to English merchants
Published: 9/28/2023 -
Ep. 121 – A Constitutional Crisis - The lower classes in the Hanse cities are rising up
Published: 9/21/2023 -
Ep. 120 - Money, Money, Money...how it worked in the Hanseatic League
Published: 9/14/2023 -
Ep. 119 – What is the Hansa? - A crocodile whose main body is concealed below the water?
Published: 9/7/2023 -
Ep. 118 – Pirates - Did Klaus Störtebecker even exist, and if so, did he matter?
Published: 8/31/2023 -
Ep. 117 – Embargoes or how the Hanse forced Norway, Novgorod and even Bruges to grant privileges
Published: 8/24/2023 -
Ep. 116 – The War with Denmark Part 2 - The Peace of Stralsund
Published: 8/17/2023 -
Ep. 115 – The War with Denmark Part I - Waldemar Atterdag's attack on Gotland
Published: 8/10/2023 -
Featuring The Scandinavian History Podcast
Published: 8/3/2023 -
Ep. 114 - The London Steelyard.......and the Hanse trade in Wine
Published: 7/27/2023 -
Ep. 113 – Bergen and Bruges - The Kontors of the Hanseatic League
Published: 7/20/2023 -
Ep. 112 - Grain and Beer - The Hanse's Trade in Beer and Cereals
Published: 7/13/2023 -
Ep. 111 - Hewing and Herring - The Copper Mines of Falun and the Fisheries of Skane
Published: 7/6/2023 -
Ep. 110 - Livonian Cities - Riga, Reval/Tallinn, Dorpat/Taru, Narva
Published: 6/29/2023 -
Season 6 The Hanseatic League: Ep. 109 – The Gotlandfahrer
Published: 6/22/2023 -
Ep. 108 – From Saxony to Saxonies - The Fragmentation of the Great Stem duchy of Henry the Lion
Published: 6/8/2023 -
Ep. 107 - The House of Wettin
Published: 6/1/2023 -
Ep. 106 – How to make a Mark in Brandenburg - The rise of Albrecht the Bear
Published: 5/25/2023
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-