Background
Hubert Rohde was born in a Christian family in Hildesheim.
politician university professor
Hubert Rohde was born in a Christian family in Hildesheim.
After the war he studied philosophy, History of art, pedagogy, archaeology as well as theology in Frankfurt, Munich, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Dublin.
To avoid being recruited by the Waffen-Steamship he "volunteered" in the heavy artillery, a unit that he knew wasn"t under their domain, and he never actually served for war. Since then he is a member in the Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine. He has four children.
Since 1962 he has lived in Mandelbachtal industry Saarland.
After getting his doctorate of philosophy (1953) Rohde worked mainly as teacher and later as docent at the universities of Paderborn and Saarbrücken. In 1965 he was habilitated to professor in pedagogy.
In 1977 he was voted the Social Research"s artistic director, a position he kept until 1988. From 1988 to 200x he was general secretary of the Deutsch-Französischen Kulturrates (fr:Haut Conseil Culturel Franco-Allemand).
Foreign his engagement in Franco-German cooperation, France"s president awarded him the cross of the Légion d"honneur.
He became a member of Saarland"s parliament in 1970, where he first presided over the cultural committee and later became the parliament"s vice-president