Name This Famous German

[Dan Martel]

Gents,

From the library of Al Ditter comes the following two photographs along with a brain teaser:

I've been browsing pictures and came upon these which you might like to post to the RCR message board as a challenge to see if there are any old farts out there who might recognize the subject.  It was a popular tourist site for the troops in 4 Brigade and their families and subscribers "of a certain age" might recall visiting it.            Aldi

As a measure of its true size I've added the photograph below which shows it with tourists (those specks at the bottom) and an aircraft in the foreground.

Very awe-inspiring.

Cheers,
Dan.

[Stoney Burke]

I belive the statue is of a chief who led the Germanic tribes against the Romans in the 3th century AD.  I can't remember his real name but we all referred to him as  "Herman the German"  I remember going to see the statue which is located just outside the Sennelager training area.
 
I know it is hard to tell from the pictures but I remember his face and helmet were riddled with bullet holes because during the Second World War the Brit fighters and bombers used to test and zero their guns on him just before they entered the Ruhr Valley.

[aldi]

Stoney,

Well done!  Hermannsdenkmal -- Herman's Monument -- is near Lippe and was a tourist site for those of us at Fort York.  It was erected by Otto von Bisramrck after the Franco-German War of 1871 to unite the disparate German states . . . just in time for WWI.  It represents the German general, called Arminius by the Romans and Armin or Herman by the Germans, who united the Germanic tribes to defeat the Romans in the Teutobergerwald, thus keeping Germania out of the Roman Emporer.  aldi

[ranrad]

Interesting history. Thanks for posting, i mssed him..ranrad