Hildegard Feidel-Mertz (born 19 May 1930 – 23 October 2013) was a German educational researcher.
She studied at the Goethe University Frankfurt and was promoted her doctorate in 1963 with Theodor W. Adorno and Martin Rang [de].
From 1967 to 1972, she was employed at the Institute for Social Pedagogy and Adult Education at the University of Frankfurt, after which she became Professor for Youth and Adult Education in the Department of Social Work at the Gesamthochschule Kassel.
[1] She also had a major influence on research into the Jüdische Landschulheime [de] existing in Germany between 1933 and 1938.
Together with Hermann Schnorbach, Feidel-Mertz built up the "Sammlung Pädagogisch- Politische Emigration 1933-1945 (PPE)", which is now housed in the "Deutsches Exilarchiv" (German Exile Archive) of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt.