Named after the Hermannplatz, which honours Hermann the Cheruscan, Arminius.
The square has had this name since 1885; before that it was the Platz am Rollkrug, after an old inn. Officially the name refers to Hermann the Cheruscan, the 19th-century German name for the chieftain Arminius. But people soon came to believe that Rixdorf’s municipal head Hermann Boddin was meant.