Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Chinese: 施寒微; pinyin: Shī Hánwēi; born 24 June 1948) is a German sinologist who served as director of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel between 1993 and 2015.

In 1973, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer held an overseas scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation in Hsinchu, Taiwan at the Chinese Language Institute and a research fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taipei.

He then spent approximately half a year as a research student at the Institute for Humanistic Studies (Jimbun kagaku kenyûshô) in Kyoto, Japan.

At the end of October 1985 he participated as a special guest in the government delegation of the Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany in Beijing and Guangzhou.

In 1993, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Göttingen for East Asian Literature and Cultural Studies and the associated assumption of the post of director of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.