Werner Salzmann (born 5 November 1962, Gurtendorf bei Wabern, Switzerland) is a tax expert and politician of the Swiss Peoples' Party (SVP).

He is graduate of the Swiss agircultural school [de][1] He was an agricultural tax expert in the Canton Bern between 1995 and 2007.

[3] As the head of the committee of security policy he successfully campaigned to raise the military budget to a 1 % share by 2030.

[4] To achieve this, he suggested to limit the expenditure for development aid and higher education in May 2022.

[1] In October 2022, he was presented as candidate for the succession for Ueli Maurer, the resigning member of the Federal Council by the SVP branch of Bern.