Hirschfeld's mayor is Alfred Elz, and his deputies are Guido Schmidt and Joachim Schug.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Tierced in mantle vert a stag's attires fixed to the scalp argent, azure issuant from the line of partition a tower with a conical roof of the second with windows and door sable, and in base argent a fess gules between seven billets fesswise in fess, three above and four below, of the fourth.

The charges in base recall the family Kratz von Scharfenstein, once the fiefholders and church lords in Hirschfeld.

The churchtower on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side refers to the church in the village, which is held to have one of the loveliest Late Romanesque quire towers in the Hunsrück.

The division of the field is different, the charges in base are not quite the same, and the tinctures on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side do not match the ones shown at the source cited above.