Charles Muhamed Huber | |
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 Charles Muhamed Huber, 2023 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2013–2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1956-12-03)3 December 1956 (age 68) Munich, Bavaria,West Germany |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | CDU |
| Children | 4 |
Charles Muhamed Huber[1] (born 3 December 1956[1] inMunich as Karl-Heinz Huber) is a German politician and actor. He was one of the first twoBundestag members of African ancestry, alongsideKaramba Diaby, who were both elected on 23 September 2013. Huber is a member of theChristian Democratic Union,[2] and was elected in the federal state ofHesse whereas he failed to win theDarmstadt constituency.[3]
As an actor, Huber played Henry Johnson in the German crime seriesDer Alte.
Huber was born in 1956, the son of a Senegalese father, who was a diplomat and nephew of the former president ofSenegal and philosopherLéopold Sédar Senghor, and a German mother inMunich. Huber completed a dental technician's apprenticeship.
In the German TV seriesDer Alte, Huber reached fame when he played the part of police superintendent Henry Johnson[4] from 1986 to 1997.
In 2002, Huber founded the organisationAfrika Direkt e. V., which supports young people, the poor, and artists inSenegal. He published an autobiography in 2005.[5]
Since 2009, Huber has been a representative of the international council of the associationAustrian Service Abroad, which is also attended by others, includingWladyslaw Bartoszewski, György Dalos, Alberto Dines, Gabriela von Habsburg,Beate Klarsfeld,Branko Lustig, Erika Rosenberg and Ben Segenreich.
Huber was elected member of the GermanBundestag in the2013 federal elections. During his time in parliament, he served on the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development, which provides parliamentary oversight of theFederal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. On the committee, he was his parliamentary group's rapporteur on West and Central Africa, raw materials andillegal drug trade.
In addition, Huber was the chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the English- and Portuguese-speaking States of West and Central Africa (Gambia,Ghana,Guinea-Bissau,Cape Verde,Liberia,Nigeria,Sierra Leone); a member of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Francophone States of West and Central Africa; and a member of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of Central America.
In February 2016, Huber accompanied German PresidentJoachim Gauck on a state visit toNigeria andMali, where they met with the countries' respective presidentsMuhammadu Buhari andIbrahim Boubacar Keïta.
In June 2016, Huber announced that he would not stand in the2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6]
Charles M. HuberEin Niederbayer im Senegal. Mein Leben zwischen zwei Welten, Scherz, Frankfurt a. M. 2005,ISBN 3-596-16271-8
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