The New Zealander headed a Carlin Motorsport 1-2-3, with his title rival teammates Jaime Alguersuari and Oliver Turvey second and third.
Hartley is still in with a mathematical chance of winning the championship, but is 30 points off the top and needs Turvey and Alguersuari to slip up.
"I was always going to have my work cut out to win championship here, but I'm happy with qualifying and being on pole position is all I could do today," said Hartley.
Alguersuari starts ahead of Turvey but will need to put more cars between himself and the championship leader to significantly reduce the 12-point deficit.
Max Chilton qualified fourth for Hitech but will start race one from 14th because of the ten-place grid penalty he received for running into Sergio Perez in the last race at Bucharest. That promotes Nick Tandy to fourth place in the sole Mygale entry.
Sam Abay will start fifth, ahead of F3 debutant Dean Smith in sixth, Walter Grubmuller seventh, and Marcus Ericsson eighth.
Perez is the only driver outside of the leading trio with a chance of winning the title, but his faint hopes look to be over after he qualified ninth. Atte Mustonen completed the top ten in the first Double R car.
Henry Surtees was the quickest of the National Class cars on his F3 debut, just pipping this year's champion, Jay Bridger, to 11th place overall. Carlin's other newcomer, Adriano Buzaid, was third in class in 17th place.
Results to follow
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