Hermann Volk (27 December 1903 – 1 July 1988) was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

He received his early education in Steinheim and Hanau, and then entered the seminary in Mainz, where he studied philosophy and theology for four years.

From 1935 to 1938 he studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, from where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy, with a thesis entitled: Die Kreaturauffassung von Karl Barth, and his doctorate in theology, with a thesis on: Emil Brunners Lehre von der ursprünglichen Gottesebenbildlichkeit des Menschen.

In 1943 Volk obtained his habilitation in dogmatic theology from the University of Münster, with a work entitled: Emil Brunners Lehre von dem Sinder.

[1] In 1963, he agreed to support a married Lutheran minister, Ernest Adam Beck, who had converted to Catholicism and wished to become a priest.