Rudolf Paul Maria Henke (born 5 June 1954) is a physician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 until 2021.

[1] The following year, he became assistant physician at St Antonius Hospital in Eschweiler,[2] rising to become a consultant in hematology and oncology in September 1988.

[1] Henke was directly elected to the Bundestag in the Aachen I constituency in 2009,[5] receiving more votes than incumbent federal health minister Ulla Schmidt in the process.

[6] In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on health policy, led by Hermann Gröhe, Georg Nüßlein and Malu Dreyer.

[11] Ahead of the 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election, Henke publicly endorsed Armin Laschet to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair.