History of the Germans
A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays

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201 Episodes
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Featuring The Scandinavian History Podcast
Published: 3/08/2023 -
Ep. 114 - The London Steelyard.......and the Hanse trade in Wine
Published: 27/07/2023 -
Ep. 113 – Bergen and Bruges - The Kontors of the Hanseatic League
Published: 20/07/2023 -
Ep. 112 - Grain and Beer - The Hanse's Trade in Beer and Cereals
Published: 13/07/2023 -
Ep. 111 - Hewing and Herring - The Copper Mines of Falun and the Fisheries of Skane
Published: 6/07/2023 -
Ep. 110 - Livonian Cities - Riga, Reval/Tallinn, Dorpat/Taru, Narva
Published: 29/06/2023 -
Season 6 The Hanseatic League: Ep. 109 – The Gotlandfahrer
Published: 22/06/2023 -
Ep. 108 – From Saxony to Saxonies - The Fragmentation of the Great Stem duchy of Henry the Lion
Published: 8/06/2023 -
Ep. 107 - The House of Wettin
Published: 1/06/2023 -
Ep. 106 – How to make a Mark in Brandenburg - The rise of Albrecht the Bear
Published: 25/05/2023 -
Ep. 105 – The Foundation of Lübeck
Published: 18/05/2023 -
Ep. 104 - The Making of Holstein
Published: 11/05/2023 -
Ep. 103 – All the Duke’s Men - Lothar III as duke of Saxony kicks of the colonisation of the East
Published: 4/05/2023 -
Ep. 102 – The Great Divide - The Investiture Controversy and its impact on the East
Published: 20/04/2023 -
Ep. 101 – Gottschalk and Adalbert - The emergence of the duchy of Mecklenburg
Published: 13/04/2023 -
Ep. 100 – The Saxon War – The Conflict between the Saxons and the Emperors breaks out in the open
Published: 6/04/2023 -
Ep. 99 – Follow the Money - The reason the Saxon nobles raided the east but did not conquer
Published: 30/03/2023 -
Ep. 98 - The Rift - The Saxon Nobles and the Emperors fall out over what to do with the East
Published: 23/03/2023 -
Ep. 97 – Rebellion! - The Slavic Wends push the Saxons back across the Elbe River
Published: 16/03/2023 -
Ep. 96 - Meet the Neighbours - Poland, Bohemia and Denmark
Published: 9/03/2023
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-