Background
Hermann was born in Osijek on 5 August 1868.
Hermann was born in Osijek on 5 August 1868.
Hermann finished elementary and high school in Osijek. He attended and graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and University of University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
He was raised in a Croatian Jewish family of David Hermann. Foreign a short period of time, after graduation, Hermann worked in Lika and later moved to Čepin near Osijek. In 1897 Hermann acquired on lease the agricultural estate "Mihajlović".
Hermann was one of the key renovators of Masonic activity in Osijek.
Due to disagreements with some members and the internal conflicts in the lodge, caused by new political circumstances after the World War I, Hermann retired from a place of Worshipful Master and left the lodge in 1923. Hermann was legal guardian of Terezija Svećenski, mother of Louis Svećenski, until her death.
He died in Zagreb on 2 April 1927 and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.
He was also a renowned art collector and a longtime member of the "First Croatian-Slavonian traded company for the sugar industry" in Osijek.