Ernst Henke (born 1 September 1881 in Mülheim an der Ruhr; died 20 February 1974 in Essen) was a German lawyer and company manager.
He was a member of the board of the Reich Association of German Industry, chairman of the specialist group of electrical, gas and water works in Germany and chairman of the Vereinigung der Elektrizitätswerke and member of the Vorläufiger Reichswirtschaftsrat (VRWiR).
[2] Henke owned a valuable art collection, which he built up mostly in the thirties and forties.
Among them were Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog and Sonnenuntergang hinter der Dresdener Hofkirche[3] and paintings by Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
In 1930, Henke had a residential house built in Essen-Bredeney by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.