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Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (born September 29, 1904, in Bremen; died February 16, 1973 in Bremen) was a German diplomat and memeber of the Nazi party who used his position as diplomat in Copenhagen to warn over 7000 Danish Jews (over 95% of the Jewish population) of their intended deportation in 1943 and arrange their escape to Sweden.

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