Werner Henke (13 May 1909 – 15 June 1944) was the commander of German submarine U-515 in the Battle of the Atlantic of World War II.

He was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the POW interrogation center in Fort Hunt, Virginia in the United States.

[1] Henke attended the Naval Academy at Mürwik and served on the pocket battleship German cruiser Admiral Scheer.

[1] Knowing this, Captain Gallery, hoping to extort intelligence from him or his crew, threatened to turn him over to the British if he did not cooperate.

Box 1142 in Fort Hunt, Virginia, where his interrogators threatened to hold him to his agreement to cooperate or be extradited to England to face war crimes charges.