History of the Germans

A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays

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199 Episodes

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

    Published: 6/6/2024

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

    Published: 5/30/2024

  3. Ep. 149 – The Real Ludwig of Bavaria

    Published: 5/23/2024

  4. Ep. 148 - Imperial Swansong – the End of Henry VII’s Campaign in Italy

    Published: 5/16/2024

  5. Ep. 147 – Brescia or Bust – Henry VII’s Big Mistake(s)

    Published: 5/9/2024

  6. Ep. 146 – The Return of the King – Henry VII’s Journey to Rome

    Published: 5/2/2024

  7. Ep. 145 - How to make Friends and Influence People – The Luxemburgs become Kings of Bohemia

    Published: 4/18/2024

  8. Ep. 144 - The Rise of the House of Luxembourg - The election of Emperor Henry VII

    Published: 4/11/2024

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

    Published: 4/4/2024

  10. Ep. 142 - Adolf von Nassau - A Shadow of a King

    Published: 3/28/2024

  11. Ep. 141 - Rudolf von Habsburg Semper Augustus - Allezeit Mehrer des Reiches

    Published: 3/21/2024

  12. Ep. 140 – Rudolf von Habsburg and the Golden King Ottokar II of Bohemia

    Published: 3/14/2024

  13. Ep. 139 – The End of the Interregnum - The Election of Rudolf von Habsburg in 1273

    Published: 3/7/2024

  14. Season 8 From the Interregnum to the Golden Bull (1250-1356): Catch-up Episode

    Published: 2/29/2024

  15. Ep. 137 – The Conversion - Albrecht, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order becomes a protestant duke

    Published: 2/8/2024

  16. Ep. 136 – 13 Years of War - The Prussian League shifts allegiance

    Published: 2/1/2024

  17. Ep. 135 - After Tannenberg - The rule of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia weakened

    Published: 1/25/2024

  18. Ep. 134 – Tannenberg / Grunwald / Žalgiris - A battle of many names

    Published: 1/18/2024

  19. Ep. 133 – The Order of the Order - The organisational structure of the Teutonic Knights

    Published: 1/11/2024

  20. Ep. 132 – The Battle on the Ice - Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein and what really happened

    Published: 1/1/2024

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A narrative history of the German people from the Middle Ages to Reunification in 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad". Gregory of Tours (539-594) HotGPod is now entering its 9th 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 (#154-163) The Reformation before the Reformation - Wenceslaus the Lazy (#165) - The Western Schism (#166/167) - The Ottomans (#168) - Sigismund (#169-