Hermann

a German chieftain. The liberator of Germany from Roman dominion. He lived about 18 B. C.-21 A. D. He entered the Roman army to learn the military art and was made a Roman citizen with the name of Arminius. Returning to his people, he organized a revolt. In the year 9 A. D. he fell upon the Roman Varus in the Teutoburg Forest and defeated him with great slaughter. He succeeded in keeping the Romans on the west side of the Rhine. In 1846 the Germans completed a Denkmal or monument on the highest point in the forest near the scene of Hermann's great victory. The base is an arched structure 100 feet in height. A heroic statue of Hermann in bronze stands on this substructure. The figure is 56 feet high, the point of his sword rises 30 feet above the top of the helmet, so that the total height of the monument is 186 feet. An interior gallery commands a magnificent view of the surrounding country. The exact site of the battle is not known. Naturally the name of Hermann is a great one among the Germans. Several monuments have been erected to his honor in the United States. One is at New Ulm, Minnesota.