A politician called after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has acquired a regional election in Namibia.
The councillor, whose father nicknamed him after the National Socialist leader, won 85 per cent of the vote in the country’s Oshana region, with 1,196 votes over his opponent’s 213.
Despite the unlucky name, the 54, told German newspaper Bild that he did not partake the Fuhrer’s philosophy and joined politics originally to oppose apartheid in southern Africa.
“That I have this name doesn’t mean that I want to subjugate Oshana now. It doesn’t mean that I’m striving for world domination. My father named me after this man. He probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for,” the region’s new district administrator said.
“It was a completely normal name for me as a child. It wasn’t until I was growing up that I realized that this man wanted to subjugate the whole world. I have nothing to do with any of these things.”
Adolf, or Adolph, is not an unusual name in the former German colony of Namibia, nevertheless, most of those still alive with the name were alive before the Second World War.
Namibia still has communities of German-speaking people and is visited by 120,000 Germans each year
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