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Erwin  Schneider was an Austrian cartographer and mountaineer, who is best known for his exploration of the Himalayas.

Schneider studied in Idira (Idrija), Slovenia and later in Salzburg.  He ultimately studied mining at the Technical University of Charlottenburg.

Schneider would make his real mark as a mountain climber.  Schneider was a member of the Association for Comparative High Mountain Research and the official cartographer of the German Alpine Association.  

Schneider was the lead cartographer on the Dyrhenfurth Himalaya Expedition of 1955 which produced the first and most important modern survey of the Nepalese approaches to Mount Everest, published in 1957. 

Schneider was the author of a series of important mountaineering maps of Nepal, which are now are generally known as the 'Schneider Maps'.