Namibian legislator Adolf Hitler Uunona, who recently was elected to his fifth term as Ompundja constituency councillor in the Oshana region of the Sub-Saharan African country, tells local paper the Namibian he’s had his name legally changed and now goes by simply Adolf Uunona.
“My name is not Adolf Hitler,” the 59 year-old career politician said. “I am Adolf Uunona. In the past, people have called me ‘Adolf Hitler’ and tried to associate me with someone I don’t even know.”
It’s not clear why Uunona’s father named him after the far more famous 20th century politician and Adolf himself had never asked. From 1884 to 1915 the country was known as German Southwest Africa, a colony of Imperial Germany, though that year the white government of South Africa invaded and seized control which it held until 1990 when Namibia gained independence. Some remnants of the German presence remain in place names and in the ancestry of locals but it does not appear Uunona has much German heritage if any at all. Still it’s a clue as to how he got his name.