History of the Germans

A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays

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171 Episodes

  1. Ep. 105 – The Foundation of Lübeck

    Published: 5/18/2023
  2. Ep. 104 - The Making of Holstein

    Published: 5/11/2023
  3. Ep. 103 – All the Duke’s Men - Lothar III as duke of Saxony kicks of the colonisation of the East

    Published: 5/4/2023
  4. Ep. 102 – The Great Divide - The Investiture Controversy and its impact on the East

    Published: 4/20/2023
  5. Ep. 101 – Gottschalk and Adalbert - The emergence of the duchy of Mecklenburg

    Published: 4/13/2023
  6. Ep. 100 – The Saxon War – The Conflict between the Saxons and the Emperors breaks out in the open

    Published: 4/6/2023
  7. Ep. 99 – Follow the Money - The reason the Saxon nobles raided the east but did not conquer

    Published: 3/30/2023
  8. Ep. 98 - The Rift - The Saxon Nobles and the Emperors fall out over what to do with the East

    Published: 3/23/2023
  9. Ep. 97 – Rebellion! - The Slavic Wends push the Saxons back across the Elbe River

    Published: 3/16/2023
  10. Ep. 96 - Meet the Neighbours - Poland, Bohemia and Denmark

    Published: 3/9/2023
  11. Season 5 Saxony and Eastward Expansion: Ep. 95 - Callous Kings and Murderous Margraves

    Published: 3/2/2023
  12. Ep. 94 - Questions and Answers

    Published: 2/9/2023
  13. Ep. 93 - Frederick II's Afterlife - from Fake Emperors to Ernst Kantorowics

    Published: 2/2/2023
  14. Ep. 92 - Papal Epilogue - form Boniface VIII's Unam Sanctam to the the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

    Published: 1/26/2023
  15. Ep. 91 - Hohenstaufen Epilogue - from Manfred of Sicily to the execution of Konradin

    Published: 1/19/2023
  16. Ep. 90 - Things are Falling Apart - The Battle of Parma and the death of Piero delle Vigne

    Published: 1/12/2023
  17. Ep. 89 - Holy War - Pope Innocent IV calls a crusade against the emperor Frederick II

    Published: 1/5/2023
  18. Ep. 88 - A Road to Peace - Can Genghis Khan fore a reconciliation between Frederick II and the Papacy?

    Published: 12/22/2022
  19. Ep. 87 - The Beast out of the Sea - The War of Words between Pope and Emperor

    Published: 12/15/2022
  20. Ep. 86 - Oops, we did it again - Frederick II is excommunicated again!

    Published: 12/8/2022

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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-