Wolfgang Anton Herrmann (born 18 April 1948) is a German chemist and academic administrator.

[1] Herrmann attended the Donau-Gymnasium Kelheim, where he passed the Abitur in 1967.

He then studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich on a scholarship from Cusanuswerk, where he wrote his diploma thesis in 1971 under the supervision of Ernst Otto Fischer, a later Nobel Prize laureate.

In 1985, he succeeded Ernst Otto Fischer at the Department of Chemistry of the Technical University of Munich.

With an h-index of 106 (According to Scopus; As of 2021[update]),[3] Herrmann is one of the most highly cited German chemists, with more than 800 scientific publications and around 80 patents.