About me

My name is Martin Hülsemann, I was born in 1969, I have a degree in electrical engineering and I work as a systems engineer for a telecommunications provider. I live in Darmstadt.

Ever since I was at school I have been interested in the history of the Roman Empire, especially the history of the Western Roman Empire in late antiquity, but also the history of the 20-year lasting Roman occupation of Germania on the right bank of the Rhine, thus the beginning of the establishment of the province of Magna Germania.

The discussions about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest never really interested me, because I felt that the outcome of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest was very negative for the further civilizational development of Germania, which is why the Kalkriese region as the site of the battle was not in question for me for a long time. Then, however, the 400 m long wall construction on the Oberesch was discovered near Kalkriese, a battlefield-preparation construction certainly as remarkable as unusual for Germanic warriors. I found it very unlikely that this construction was not mentioned in any of the ancient sources on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. However, since the non-mentioning the wall in the ancient sources was obviously not a reason for the scientists involved to consider other battles of the Roman-Germanic War for Kalkriese, I began myself to consider alternatives for the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

I tried to define what the Romans’ requirements in Germania were, and where in Germania these requirements could be implemented efficiently. In this way, the locations of the Romans in Germania could be determined, and thus also the transport routes between these locations, on which Arminius could attack the 3 Roman legions. In the 2010s, I then began to check on site the theories I had developed on the Roman province of Magna Germania. This was done using considerable time and financial resources, but I was still only able to check a small part of my theoretical elaborations in practice. The topic is too comprehensive for a single person. IHowever, I was able to gather initial, promising evidence when it came to locate the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

The portal ALISONENSIS documents the so far results of my research work.