Arminius

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Arminius (17 BC - 19 AD), personally a war chief of the Cherusci, was the leader of the Germanic tribal alliance, that defeated the Roman forces at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. He was also known as Hermann der Cherusker.

A large statue of him, built in the 19th century, is at Detmold.