History of the Germans
A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays
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177 Episodes
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Ep. 167 - The Great Western Schism - Part 2
Published: 24/10/2024 -
Ep. 166 – The Great Western Schism – Part 1
Published: 17/10/2024 -
Ep. 165 - Wenceslaus the Lazy and Ruprecht of the Empty Pocket
Published: 10/10/2024 -
Season 9 - The Reformation before the Reformation - Season Opener
Published: 3/10/2024 -
Germany at War - A Guest Episode from Not so Quiet on the Western Front
Published: 26/09/2024 -
Charles IV. A Portrait of a Medieval Ruler - Interview with Václav Žůrek
Published: 19/09/2024 -
Ep. 163 – Succession and Legacy
Published: 12/09/2024 -
Ep. 162 – Schisms and Deals
Published: 5/09/2024 -
Ep. 161 – A Luxemburg Empire
Published: 29/08/2024 -
Ep. 160 – The Golden Bull of 1356
Published: 22/08/2024 -
Ep. 159 – The Rise to Imperial Power, Charles IV journey to Rome
Published: 15/08/2024 -
Ep. 158 – Prague – The New Rome? Karl IV’s great plans for his capital city
Published: 8/08/2024 -
Ep. 157 – The Black Death and other Calamities
Published: 1/08/2024 -
Ep. 156 – What Price a Crown - Karl IV fight for the throne
Published: 25/07/2024 -
Ep. 155: The Youth of the Emperor Karl IV
Published: 18/07/2024 -
Ep. 154 - The Blind King John of Bohemia
Published: 11/07/2024 -
Ep. 153 – The Rise of the city of Nürnberg
Published: 27/06/2024 -
Ep.152 - The (not so) Ugly Duchess Margarete Maultasch
Published: 13/06/2024 -
Ep. 151 – The Kurverein zu Rhens – featuring William of Ockham
Published: 6/06/2024 -
Ep. 150 – The Last Chivalric Battles – Morgarten and Mühldorf
Published: 30/05/2024
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-
