History of the Germans

History of the Germans

By Dirk Hoffmann-Becking

Society & CultureEducationHistory

What's History of the Germans about?

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)


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