Georg Hartmann (4 August 1865 – 12 July 1946) was a German geographer working in German South West Africa. He was born in Dresden and educated at the technical school of his native city and at Leipzig, where he studied mathematics, physics, and geography (doctorate 1889). From 1893 to 1908 he traveled throughout German South West Africa and southern Angola. He worked as a director for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company and was co-founder of the town Grootfontein in Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia. Hartmann died at Grammersdorf in Schleswig-Holstein.