Hermann Ostfeld (February 10, 1912, in Hamborn, Duisburg, – 1996 in Tel Aviv), was a German rabbi as well as a criminologist, psychotherapist and judicial official in Israel.
[1] A short time later, he was also given the office of district rabbi for southern Lower Saxony and thus the care for the Jewish communities in Einbeck, Moringen, Hannoversch Münden, Duderstadt, Bovenden, Bremke, Adelebsen, Geismar and Dransfeld.
A few days before the destruction of the Göttingen synagogue on the night of the pogrom, Ostfeld emigrated to Palestine in October 1938 and took the Hebrewized name Zvi Hermon there in 1951.
Hermon's academic career began in 1960 as a lecturer in penology at the universities of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
[7] In it, he devoted just under 80 pages to his time in Göttingen and described his tasks as a "rabbi in a threatened, frightened Jewish community that fears for its life, for its children, for its future"; as a Zionist, he had been convinced "that emigration and participation in the building of the country is the best way to save the threatened Jewish people," so that he promoted emigration in his sermons and other public appearances.