Background
Huber was born in 1956 as the son of a Senegalese father, who was a diplomat, and as the nephew of the former president of Senegal and philosopher Léopold Sédar Senghor, and a German mother in Munich.
Huber was born in 1956 as the son of a Senegalese father, who was a diplomat, and as the nephew of the former president of Senegal and philosopher Léopold Sédar Senghor, and a German mother in Munich.
Huber went through an apprenticeship for a dental technician. In the German television series Der Alte, Huber reached fame when he played the part of police superintendent Henry Johnson from 1986 to 1997. In 2002, Huber founded the organisation Afrika Direkt est
V., which supports, for example, young people, the poor and artists in Senegal.
He published an autobiography in 2005. Since 2009, Huber has been a representative of the international council of the association Austrian Service Abroad, which is also attended by others like Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, György Dalos, Alberto Dines, Gabriela von Habsburg, Beate Klarsfeld, Branko Lustig, Erika Rosenberg and Ben Segenreich.
He has since been serving on the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development, which provides parliamentary oversight of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. On the committee, he is parliamentary group’s rapporteur on West and Central Africa, raw materials and illegal drug trade.
In February 2016, Huber accompanied German President Joachim Gauck on a state visit to Nigeria and Mali, where they met with the countries’ presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
Social Democratic Party of Germany, Christian Democratic Union, Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
He was one of the first two Bundestag members of African ancestry, alongside Karamba Diaby, who were both elected on September 23, 2013. Member of the German Bundestag, 2013–present
Huber has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 federal elections. In addition, Huber is the chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Englishand 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.