History of the Germans
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History of the Germans
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: O...
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No Mojo in my Dojo - Next episode in a Week
Hello friends of the History of the Germans. I am afraid there will not be an episode this week. I would have preferred to say that I have caught a bu...
Ep. 209 – The First Habsburg Emperor
Today we – and the Habsburgs – stride back on to the grand stage of European politics. Not with a titan of history or monarch whose long and fruitful...
Ep. 208 - Boy Meets Princess, Boy Becomes King (Albrecht II)
Last week we saw the family slowly climbing out of the hole that Friedrich IV of the Tyrol had dug them. But despite all these consolidation efforts,...
Ep.207 Of Land and Lip – How the Habsburgs got their Chin
“The Habsburgs ruled half of Europe with a chin that entered the room five minutes before they did,” is one of those witticisms that made the 19th cen...
Ep. 206 – Division, Destruction and Degradation - Albrecht III&IV, Wilhelm, Leopold IV and Friedrich IV
Success for a princely family in the Late Middle Ages has a lot to do with reproductive luck. Not having any offspring, in particular no male offsprin...
Ep. 205 – Sempach – the Death of a Duke and the Birth of a Nation
On July 9th, 1386 in a field near the Sempach lake., the armies of archduke Leopold of Austria line up against the forces of the city of Lucerne and t...
Ep. 204 – Rudolf IV, Founder and Forger (1339-1365)
Rudolf IV of Habsburg (1339–1365), son of Albrecht “the Wise,” reigned as Duke of Austria for just seven years but left a lasting mark. Born when the...
Ep. 203 – From Rudolf I to Albrecht the Wise 1273-1358
The Habsburg dynasty, originating from Radobot’s castle in 11th-century Switzerland, rose from obscurity to European prominence. In 1273 Rudolf of Hab...
The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg - Trailer
"Let others wage war: you, happy Austria, marry’. Is that really it? Did this family acquire an empire where the sun never sets through just luck and...
Guest Episode: A History of Italy on "A German Priest and a New Emperor"
Hello and welcome friends of the History of the Germans Podcast.
This week I will again showcase an independent history podcast I really like an...
Guest Episode: History Rage talks to Roger Moorhouse about Stauffenberg
Hello friends of the History of the Germans Podcast. As I mentioned last episode, I am on holiday now, which means I spend my time reading up about th...
Ep. 202 - Arms and Armour
In 1550 Spanish court records show that the Augsburg armorer Kolman Helmschmied was paid an advance of 2,000 ducats for a full armour for king Philipp...
Ep. 201 – Mapping the World, or how Germans invented America
When you enter the great hall of the Thomas Jefferson building at the Library of Congress in Washington, the first exhibit you will be facing is their...
Ep. 200 – Divide and Lose, the Leipziger Teilung
When two brothers, Ernst and Albrecht of Saxony divided up their enormous inheritance that comprised Thuringia, Meissen and the electorate of Sachsen-...
Ep. 199 – How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 2 - the Economy)
So, why did Holland really leave the empire? Was it because the valiant and tragic countess Jacqueline was “hunted down from one land to the other, al...
Ep. 198 – How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 1 - the Politics)
Today begins a two part series about how the Low countries modern day Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg shifted out of the Holy Empire. These lands,...
Ep. 197 – The Landshuter Hochzeit – Love and War in Bavaria (Part 2)
On November 14th and 15th 1475 one of the grandest events in the history of the Holy Roman Empire took place, the Landshuter Hochzeit, the nuptials of...
Ep. 196 – Agnes Bernauer - Love and War in Bavaria – (Part 1)
When I first recorded this episode, my nose was so bunged up, I could barely speak. So I cloned my voice and produced a whole episode using an Ai gene...
The Berliner - A Filling Episode
Unfortunately I have been felled by manflu a much belittled affliction. So no Agnes Bernauer and Bavarian dukes. That will be next week.
For now...
Ep. 195 – Engraving the German Renaissance
Last year I went to an exhibition at the Städel museum in Frankfurt that was entitled Holbein and the Renaissance in the North. That is the elder Holb...
Ep. 194 – The Fuggers of Augsburg
Hello and welcome to the History of the Germans: Episode 194 – The Fuggers of Augsburg, which is also episode 10 of Season 10 “The Empire in the 15th...
Ep. 193 - The Trade and Tribulations of the Free Imperial Cities
Ravensburg, and you are very much forgiven if you cannot place it on the map, is today a town of 50,000 in the far south eastern corner of Baden-Württ...
Ep. 192 - Württemberg, or How to Build a Success
The counts, dukes and ultimately kings of Württemberg had risen to the top by winning the genetic lottery. Their eldest sons tended to be competent, s...
Ep. 191 – The Margraviate of Baden
What is it like to be a prince? Well, not quite what it is set out to be, in particular when you are a smaller prince, not in stature, but in land.
Ep. 190 – A (very) brief History of the German Universities
Between the time the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901 and 1933, a total of 31 were awarded to German scientists and politicians. To name just a f...
Ep. 189 – The Count Palatine on the Rhine
This week it is back to the political landscape of the empire. We will travel upriver from Mainz via Worms and the not yet existent cities of Mannheim...
Ep. 188 - What Has Printing Ever Done For Us?
“We should note the force, effect, and consequences of inventions which are nowhere more conspicuous than in those three which were unknown to the anc...
Ep. 187 – Johannes Gutenberg’s Pressing Matters
This podcast is now well into its fourth year and I have established my process for research, script writing and recording. As for research, that usua...
Ep. 186 - Origin Stories - Mainz and Hessen
This week we are setting off on our tour of the empire for real. And where better to start than with the most senior, most august of the seven prince...
The Empire in the 15th Century - Season Opener
Many German histories skip over this period in order to get to the Reformation, which is a shame. Because the 15th century did not just shape the phys...
Ep. 184 - A German Messallina? Barbara of Celje
Barbara ist geil und ruchlos is the title of a 17th century description of emperor Sigismund’s second wife, Barbara of Celje and it goes on as follows...
Ep. 183 – The Aftermath of a Revolution
This week we bring the series about the reformation before the reformation to an end. It is time to take stock. What changes did 20 years of oppositio...
Ep. 182 – The Return of the King
We have a tendency to overlook the history of the smaller European nations even though they do quite often provide the laboratory where one could have...
Ep. 181 – Zizka’s Drum
“And anyone who would not want to keep and truly fulfill the above written pieces and articles, and would not want to help protect and defend them; su...
Ep. 180: Nude Dissenters and Blind Inventors - Adamites and the battle of Kutna Hora
The Czech language has been a severe impediment to my storytelling this season and you may have noticed that I often avoid to name places and people,...
Ep. 179 – Meanwhile in the Empire - Kicking off Imperial Reform
Sigismund, king of the Romans, king of Hungary and recently crowned king of Bohemia is not doing too well. Despite his long list of glittering titles...
Ep. 178 - No Hill to Die On, from Tabor to Vitkov
“It is we, the followers of master Jan Hus, who are obeying the law of God, we who are the true followers of Christ. Thus therefore, who oppose us, op...
Ep. 177 – The Day after the End of Days (Jan Zizka in Pilsen)
“To our great shame and sorrow, we must acknowledge how our brethren have been cleverly seduced by Satan, and how they have departed from Holy Scriptu...
Ep. 176 – A Great Idiot of History?
Revolutions are exceedingly rare in world history. And they are so rare because they require a whole host of things going wrong and going wrong all at...
Ep. 175 – Death and Defenestration; the Hussite Revolt
The Bohemians had already protested against the treatment of Jan Hus when he was arrested and anger was brewing throughout his trial. Hus hadn’t come...