History of the Germans

A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays

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177 Episodes

  1. Ep. 52 - The Honour of the Empire - Bringing the broken Empire back together

    Published: 24/03/2022

  2. Ep. 51 - The Barbarossa - Who was the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa?

    Published: 17/03/2022

  3. Ep. 50 - Barbarossa Begins - A Stolen Election?

    Published: 10/03/2022

  4. Ep. 49 - Konrad's Catastrophe - The Disaster that is the Second Crusade

    Published: 03/03/2022

  5. Ep. 48 - Konrad's Conundrum - Imperial Coronation or Crusade?

    Published: 24/02/2022

  6. Ep. 47 - Konrad's Coup - The Hohenstaufen Konrad III snatches the crown from the Welf

    Published: 17/02/2022

  7. Ep. 46 - A Topsy Turvy World - Lothar III and the schism between Anaclet II Innocent II

    Published: 10/02/2022

  8. Ep. 45 - Triple Division - The role of Bernard of Clairvaux

    Published: 03/02/2022

  9. Ep. 44 - A Saxon Emperor - Lothar III takes the crown and ends in a civil war with the Hohenstaufen

    Published: 28/01/2022

  10. Season 3 The Early Hohenstaufen (1125-1189): Ep. 43- All Change, All Change

    Published: 20/01/2022

  11. Ep. 42 - A World Revolution?

    Published: 09/12/2021

  12. Ep. 41 - The Duke's Rebuke - Henry V has to accept the Concordat of Worms

    Published: 02/12/2021

  13. Ep. 40 - Henry V's Cunning Plan - Pope Paschal II offers to hand back all imperial fiefs which causes havoc

    Published: 25/11/2021

  14. Ep. 39 - The End of Emperor Henry IV

    Published: 18/11/2021

  15. Bonus - Matilda of Tuscany

    Published: 14/11/2021

  16. Ep. 38 - The First Crusade - Crusaders attacking the Jewish communities in Mainz, Speyer and Worms

    Published: 11/11/2021

  17. Ep. 37 - The Two Grooms - Countess Matilda of Tuscany marries a man 25 years her junior

    Published: 04/11/2021

  18. Ep. 36 - Henry IV is Coming Home

    Published: 28/10/2021

  19. Ep. 35 - To Rome! To Rome! - Henry IV takes revenge on pope Gregory VII

    Published: 21/10/2021

  20. Ep. 34 - Gaining the Upper Hand - Henry IV defeats the anti-king Rudolf von Rheinfelden

    Published: 14/10/2021

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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-

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