Ralf Zerback (born 1961) is a German historian, writer and author.
Ralf Zerback was born in Stuttgart. He studied history in Frankfurt and Heidelberg. He was a pupil of the historian Lothar Gall. He wrote his doctoral thesis about the bourgeoisie of Munich in the 19th century. Zerback works as a journalist for Die Zeit and author in Frankfurt.
In 2022, he published Triumph der Gewalt: Drei deutsche Jahre 1932 bis 1934 on the Nazi's early reign of power in Germany.