History of the Germans
Hosted by Detlef Brandes and Tobias Hochsieder · Dirk Hoffmann-Becking
4.9from 2,224 ratings
- 442
- Episodes
- 97
- Transcribed
- 2,224
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 168K
- YouTube views
About 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) 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) Colonisation of the East (#95-108) The Hanseatic League (#109-127) The Teutonic Knights (#128-137) From the Interregnum to the Golden Bull (#138 -185) - 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-#184 The Empire in the 15th Century - Mainz & Hessen #186 - Printing #187-#188 - Universities #190 - Wittelsbachs #189, #196-#199 - Baden, Wuerrtemberg, Augsburg, Fugger (#191-195) - Maps & Arms (#201-#202) The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg - Early Habsburgs (#203-#207) - Albrecht II (#208) - Friedrich III (#209-#215) - Maximilian I (#215-
- Publisher
- Dirk Hoffmann-Becking
- Category
- education · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Jan 2021
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
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Ep. 240 Martin Luther - His Youth and His "Anfechtungen"
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The University of Wittenberg was brand, brand new. The elector of Saxony, Frederick the Moise, had decided to make Wittenberg one of his main residences. He rebuilt the ancient castle in the new Italian Renaissance style. He erected a new church adjacent to it, and he founded an Augustinian friary. But the jewel in the crown was his university, which was first opened in 1502. Johann von Staupitz, as an eminent theologian, a senior member of a religious order, as well as the childhood friend of the Elector, had been instrumental in the setting up of this new university. The Wittenberg came about during a period that saw dozens of universities spring up in the Holy Roman Empire, mainly designed to satisfy the gigantic appetite for lawyers and administrators in the consolidating principalities. […]
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