Charles M. Huber

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Charles Muhamed Huber (* 3. December 1956 in Munich as Karl-Heinz Huber ) is a German actor , author and non-party politicians (former CDU ). He was best known for the television series Der Alte . From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Since 2018 he has been living near M'bour in Senegal , where he built a school for 1000 children for his association Afrika Direkt eV. Since February 2020 he has been a special advisor to the President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall .

Origin and family

Huber was born in Munich as the illegitimate son of the Senegalese diplomat Jean-Pierre Faye (nephew of the former President of Senegal and philosopher Léopold Sédar Senghor ) and the German domestic worker Olga Huber. He grew up mostly with his maternal grandmother and didn't meet his father until he was 28. Huber trained as a dental technician before starting a career as an actor and political advisor in public. His stage name is Charles Muhamed . The choice of name is a reminder of his childhood, when he was nicknamed Charly, as well as an expression of sympathy for Muhammad Ali . In his autobiography Ein Niederbayer im Senegal , published in 2004, Huber describes his childhood as an Afro-German who grew up with his grandmother in Großköllnbach (Markt Pilsting , district of Dingolfing-Landau ) in the 1960s , his youth in Munich and his difficult relationship with the African part of his origins . In 2004 he was admitted to the German-Swiss PEN Center .

Charles Huber is divorced and has four children. He is honorary commissioner of the Bavarian police .

Acting career

Huber began his acting career in Munich cellar theaters. As the first series actor with African roots outside the USA, he achieved fame in 120 countries through the German crime series Der Alte , in which he played Detective Inspector Henry Johnson from 1986 to 1997 , after having played a guest role a year earlier. He also worked in the movies Kolp , Enemy Mine , Erkan & Stefan , The Grandma is Dead and Kehraus . In 1996 Huber played (alongside Anna Nicole Smith ) in the American film Skyscraper .

In 1999 he completed his directorial training at the New York Film Academy . His graduation film, the short film The Arrival , was shown at the Hof International Film Festival in 1999 . In 2004 he played in the play Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur , in 2010 he took on the lead role in the musical Mandela .

Commitment to Africa

After leaving the ZDF series Der Alte in 1996, Huber went to Ethiopia , where he worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Tourism. The content of the Ethiopian pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover with over 1.3 million visitors comes from him and his wife Shobha. Since the beginning of 2000, Huber has worked as an advisor to various federal ministries and as a part-time advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).

In 2002 he founded, among others with his actor colleague Markus Böttcher , who played together with Huber in Der Alte , the organization Afrika Direkt e. V. , which supports artists, young people and people in need in Senegal, among other things, but also invites young people and socially disadvantaged children from Germany, for example from the Munich orphanage, to Senegal. In 2006 he campaigned for the improved integration of African athletes in professional football and brought the Senegalese president to Munich.

At the end of 2018, Huber moved permanently near the city of M'bour in Senegal, about 100 kilometers south of Dakar, where he has owned a house on the Atlantic since 2004. In a school he founded, he wants to teach around 1,000 children from 2019 and improve his knowledge of the Wolof language, but continue to spend the summer months from July to September in Europe.

Political activities

Huber had been interested in politics since his youth. Member of foreign policy working groups of the SPD and later the CSU. In terms of content, he is close to the Union parties . In the 2009 Bundestag election campaign, Huber supported the CSU , including with television appearances, and created three internet election spots for Chancellor Angela Merkel . In the 2013 federal election he ran for the CDU as a direct candidate in the Darmstadt constituency , after initially wanting to run for the CSU - with the advocacy of Edmund Stoiber - in East Munich . A search committee around the former Hessian minister of education Karin Wolff had spoken out in favor of Huber. For the election campaign, he moved his residence from Munich to Mühltal near Darmstadt, and in order to be able to run for the constituency, he exchanged his CSU party book for that of the CDU. On October 30, 2012, Charles M. Huber was nominated as a candidate for the Bundestag by the CDU Darmstadt with 94 percent approval. Huber was defeated in the federal election on September 22, 2013 as a direct candidate of the former Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries (SPD) with 63,400 to 65,812 votes. Nevertheless, he made it into parliament just over 19th place on the Hessian CDU state list.

In the German Bundestag, Huber was a full member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development , a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs , of the Subcommittee on Civil Crisis Prevention, Conflict Management and Networked Action, and of the Committee on Economy and Energy . He also held the office of deputy chairman of the Africa working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and chairman of the parliamentary group for the English and Portuguese-speaking countries of West and Central Africa . Huber was a deputy member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly .

On March 2, 2014, the Darmstadt CDU Huber terminated the collaboration and accused him of not being present in the constituency. Huber, on the other hand, complained of a lack of support from the CDU after tensions had already arisen during the election campaign. Undeterred by this, Huber continued to campaign for his constituency at the federal level. Among other things, he arranged a visit from Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt to the ICE connection.

Huber was considered an Africa expert for the Union parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. In April 2015 he called for a master plan for Africa. In February 2016 he accompanied Federal President Gauck on his trip to Nigeria and Mali, and the year before that, Federal Council President Volker Bouffier to South Africa and Mozambique. In addition, Huber acted as a speaker and door opener for the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation and its activities abroad, particularly in Africa. In March 2016, Huber spoke as a guest speaker at Harvard University on the subject of migration in Germany and Europe.

Huber did not run for the 2017 federal election . As a reason for this, he gave what in his opinion was a lack of support from the Darmstadt CDU for his renewed candidacy.

In August 2019, Huber resigned from the CDU in protest with reference to Günter Nooke . Nooke, as the Federal Government's Africa Commissioner , responded in a comment in a comment that was inappropriately downplaying the discriminatory, racist remarks made by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of FC Schalke 04, Clemens Tönnies .

Publications

Web links

Commons : Charles M. Huber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The new one . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 2015, p. 28-29 ( online ).
  2. ^ Charles M. Huber: "The old" assistant is now a presidential advisor. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  3. ^ Charles M. Huber: The actor grew up without a father. In: Bunte .de , August 31, 2013.
  4. ^ Charles M. Huber, descendant de Senghor, député et "Allemand comme tous les autres". In: Jeune Afrique , September 30, 2013.
  5. ↑ Bundestag: Which MPs come, stay, go In: SPON , online, accessed on October 22, 2013
  6. ^ Marc Widmann: CDU candidate Charles M. Huber. His real name is Karl-Heinz Huber. In: Süddeutsche.de , The Way to Berlin , November 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ About us. In: Afrika Direkt , accessed on August 24, 2012.
  8. ↑ Ex-TV commissioner moves to Senegal: “Why not Africa too?” Spiegel Online , December 19, 2018; accessed on February 25, 2019
  9. ↑ The actor, author and politician Charles M. Huber settled in his father's country . In: Donaukurier , December 17, 2018; accessed on February 25, 2019
  10. ↑ Hannelore Crolly: The "Assi vom Alten" wants to go to the Bundestag. In: Die Welt , August 21, 2013.
  11. ↑ Werner Breunig: CDU follows Stoiber's recommendation in Darmstadt. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 23 August 2012.
  12. ^ Johannes Welte: Huber fights for candidacy for the Bundestag. In: tz .de , July 23, 2012, accessed on July 8, 2014.
  13. ^ Charles M. Huber. Premiere at the CDU stand. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 8, 2012.
  14. ↑ a b Werner Breuning: District chairman “should resign”. The Huber case leads to a dispute in Darmstadt's CDU. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 4, 2014.
  15. ↑ An old friend. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , August 24, 2012.
  16. ↑ CDU nominates Charles Huber as Bundestag candidate - Pentz and Kotoucek: “94 percent strong signal for convincing candidates”. ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: CDU-Darmstadt.de , October 31, 2012.
  17. ↑ Constituency result: State of Hesse constituency 186 - Darmstadt - Final result of the 2013 federal election. ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundeswahlleiter.de .
  18. ↑ Daniel Baczyk: Darmstadt: Charles M. Huber, it still manages to Berlin. ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Echo-Online .de , September 23, 2013.
  19. ^ Members of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. ( Memento from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de .
  20. ^ Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee. ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de .
  21. ↑ Members of the sub-committee for civil crisis prevention, conflict management and networked action. ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de .
  22. ^ Members of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de .
  23. ↑ Boards of the parliamentary groups in the 18th electoral term. ( Memento from August 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de .
  24. ^ German delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO. ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de .
  25. ↑ Charles M. Huber: I feel abused by the CDU Darmstadt ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Echo-Online .de , March 2, 2014.
  26. ↑ Jens Schneider: Lone CDU candidate from Bavaria. In: Süddeutsche.de , September 17, 2013.
  27. ^ CDU member of the Bundestag Charles M. Huber brings Federal Transport Minister Dobrindt to Weiterstadt in his constituency echo-online.de
  28. ↑ Charles M. Huber on the podium of the specialist discussions of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on the topics of the continent of opportunities Africa: the challenge of education and nutrition and promoting peace and security in Africa - strengthening personal responsibility
  29. ↑ Huber: Africa needs a master plan . Deutsche Welle - Interview from April 23, 2015
  30. ^ Deutschlandfunk: Joachim Gauck visits Mali
  31. ^ Federal Council President Bouffier visits South Africa ( Memento from June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) German Embassy South Africa
  32. ^ MdB Charles Huber on talks in Tanzania . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Tanzania office
  33. ↑ Charles M. Huber speaks on March 10, 2016 at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University on Changing Images of European Migrants: From Hitler and Colonialism to Today
  34. ↑ Charles Huber does not run again . Echo Online
  35. ^ Charles M. Huber. In: Facebook. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
  36. ↑ Marvin Ziegele: Statement after Tönnies statement: After racist statements - Charles M. Huber leaves the CDU in protest , In: Frankfurter Rundschau , article from August 8, 2019, seen on August 9, 2019
  37. ↑ Charles M. Huber speaks on March 10, 2016 at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University on Changing Images of European Migrants: From Hitler and Colonialism to Today
  38. ↑ Charles M. Huber speaks on December 6, 2016 at Howard University Washington DC on "" The perception of African cultures in Europe " twitter.com
  39. ↑ Charles M. Huber will speak on January 26th, 2016 as part of the TU lecture series "Development Policy XXVII | Focal Area: Refugees" on "Motivations for escape - experiences from Africa" sid-berlin.de (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Charles M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Charles Muhamad; Huber, Karl-Heinz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, author and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich