The Bructeri, a Germanic tribe whose people were located in northwestern Germany (Soester Boerde), between the Lippe and Ems rivers south of the Teutoburg Forest, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia around 100 BC through 350 AD. They were allied with the Cherusci, the Marsi and the Chatti, under the leadership of Arminius, in defeating the Roman General Varus and annihilating his three legions at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. Six years later, one of the generals serving under Germanicus, L. Stertinius defeated the Bructeri and devastated their lands. Among the booty captured by Stertinius was the eagle standard of the 19th Roman legion that had been lost at Teutoburg Forest. Refusing to bow to Roman rule, the Bructeri in 69-70 participated in the rising of the Batavii. Best known among them was their wise women Veleda, the spiritual leader of the Batavi rising; her subsequent fate is not known, but it is generally believed that she was captured by the Romans.

The Bructeri were eventually absorbed into the larger Frankish community. The best place to find archival documents and history of the tribe is Soest, Germany.