Episode 17 – The Rise of Hamburg
The Hanseatic League - En podkast av Dirk Hoffmann-Becking
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The last two episodes may have left you with a sense of gloom and foreboding about the great Hanseatic cities. But here is the counterintuitive fact, the Hanse may continuously loose political power and economic relevance, but the cities that make up the association are flourishing. Not all of them but some, Hamburg and Danzig in particular.Why it is that the Hanse declines, but the Hansards are doing mightily well is what we are looking into this week. So let’s see….The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H.545 by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (or some claim it as BWV 1031 Johann Sebastian Bach) performed and arranged by Michel Rondeau under Common Creative Licence 3.0.As always:Homepage with maps, photos, transcripts and blog: www.historyofthegermans.comFacebook: @HOTGPod Twitter: @germanshistoryInstagram: history_of_the_germansReddit: u/historyofthegermansPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/HistoryofthegermansBibliography:J.K. Dunlop, Hamburg 800-1945, Published by the Anglo-German Club E.V.Philippe Dollinger, Die Hanse, 6. Auflage, 2012