Werner von Melle (18 October 1853 – 18 February 1937) was a mayor and senator of Hamburg,[1][2] as well as a jurist.

[3] Melle, who held multiple doctorates, also served on the first board of trustees for the Hamburg Scientific Foundation.

Melle studied law at the Georgia Augusta University in Göttingen and became a lawyer in Hamburg in 1876, also writing articles for the newspaper Hamburgischer Correspondent.

[5] Then the fellow senators elected him First Mayor of Hamburg, thus head of state and of government (president of the senate) – though under the auspices of a primus inter pares regulation – for the full calendar years 1915, 1918 and for the term 31 March to 31 December 1919.

His predecessor as First Mayor was Max Predöhl (in 1914 and in 1917), his successors were Carl August Schröder in 1916 and Friedrich Sthamer in 1920.