Named after Hermannstraße, officially honouring Arminius, perhaps also a local mayor.
From 1875 the road to Britz was renamed Hermannstraße bit by bit. Officially it honours Hermann the Cheruscan, the Germanic chieftain Arminius, who destroyed Varus’s Roman legions in the year 9. Locals suspected another Hermann: Hermann Boddin (1844–1907), the dominant head of Rixdorf, who had pushed for the road. The station opened in 1899.