Ferdinand Scherf (born in 1943 in Mayen), is a German professor and historian.
After studying history and German language and literature in Bonn and Mainz, Scherf began his career in February 1970 as a teacher of history and German at the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, whose deputy headmaster he became in 1986 and where he remained until his retirement in 2007.
It is thanks to his commitment that Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium has won the "Bundeswettbewerb Geschichte" (Federal History Competition) nine times, which has been held by the President of Germany since 1973.
With his colleague Helmut Link, he published two writings "Begegnungen mit dem Judentum".
In 1996, together with Franz Dumont and Friedrich Schütz, the editorial work on an overall presentation of the History of the City of Mainz [de] began.