He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and of the German Bundestag.

[1] He founded the music publisher G. Henle Verlag.

Henle also pursued a political career and was a member of the Frankfurt Economic Council from 1947 to 1949.

He then belonged to the German Bundestag in its first legislative period (1949-1953) as a directly elected member of the Rhein-Wupper-Kreis constituency.

This biography article about a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) is a stub.