German submarine U-1163 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was ordered on 14 October 1941, and was laid down on 5 December 1942 at Danziger Werft AG, Danzig, as 'werk 135'. She was launched on 12 June 1943 and commissioned under the command of Oberleutnant Ernst-Ludwig Balduhn on 6 October of that year.