Ferdinand Scherf

Ferdinand Scherf (* 1943 in Mayen ) is a German teacher and historian. From 1970 to 2007 he was a teacher at the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz and editor of local historical works.

Live and act

After studying history and German in Bonn and Mainz, Scherf began his career in February 1970 as a teacher of history and German at the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, whose deputy headmaster he became in 1986 and where he stayed until he left in 2007. It is thanks to his commitment that the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium was nine times national winner in the "National History Competition", which has been held since 1973 by the German Federal President .

Scherf is active in the Mainz antiquity association. With his colleague Helmut Link he published two works “Encounters with Judaism”. In 1996, Franz Dumont and Friedrich Schütz began editorial work on an overall presentation of the history of the city of Mainz . Its publication in 1998 filled a gap in the documentation of the city's history.

Awards

Due to his services as a long-time tutor of the Federal President's history competition, Ferdinand Scherf was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2007 .

Fonts

• with Franz Dumont and Friedrich Schütz: Mainz - The history of the city. Zabern, Mainz 1998 ISBN 3-8053-2000-0
• with Franz Dumont: Mainz - people, buildings, events: A city history , Zabern, Mainz 2010 ISBN 978-3-8053-4247-6
• Gymnasium Moguntinum 70, 2007. Sheets of the friends and support group of Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Mainz.
• with M. Hensel-Grobe and F. Dumont (eds.): Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Mainz - The history of the school. Rutzen, Ruhpolding, Mainz 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ferdinand Scherf in the catalog of the German National Library