Man called Adolf Hitler Uunona wants to be re-elected in Namibia

Man called Adolf Hitler Uunona wants to be re-elected in Namibia Luke Alsford Published November 25, 2025 11:50am Updated November 25, 2025 11:50am Share this article via whatsappShare this article via xCopy the link to this article.Link is copiedShare this article via facebook Comment now Comments Adolf Hitler Uunona is back on the ballot paper (Picture: eagleFM)

It is the name nobody wants to read on a ballot paper.

Adolf Hitler is a candidate another election, but this time thousands of miles from Germany.

This time it is not the Adolf Hitler, but Adolf Hitler Uunona, who is standing in a council election in Namibia.

His name might also sound familiar because Mr Uunona, 59, first stood in the local elections in 2020 in the Ompundja constituency.

He received 1,196 votes, winning a resounding 85 per cent of the vote to land himself a place on the regional council.

Hitler is once again on the ballot paper, but not the German dictator (Picture: Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

That margin of victory is less than the 98.8 per cent share of the vote the German Adolf Hitler won in the country’s rigged 1936 parliamentary election.

Now, Mr Uunona is running for re-election in Ompundja for the Swapo party, with the vote set to be held on November 26.

Early projections suggest the politician is likely to retain his seat.

In a far cry from the genocidal dictator, Adolf Hitler Uunona is well respected in his constituency as an anti-apartheid campaigner.

In an interview with German newspaper Bild, he insisted he had ‘nothing to do’ with Nazi ideology.

He said his father had named him after the Nazi leader, but that ‘he probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for’.

Mr Uunona said he saw it ‘as a totally normal name’ as a child but only later realised the horrors committed by his namesake as he grew up.

The murderous dictator rigged elections throughout his time as German leader (Picture: Heinrich Hoffmann/Getty Images)

Germanic names are common in Namibia, which was part of a German territory called German South West Africa from 1884 to 1915.

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It came under South African control before gaining independence in 1990, but still has many German-named towns and a small German-speaking community.

The German dictator hit the headlines earlier this month when scientists revealed Hitler had a genetic disorder that can result in a micro-penis.

DNA analysis of blood taken from the sofa where Adolf Hitler died suggests he may have suffered from a genetic disorder that prevents puberty, lowers testosterone and sex drive.

By analysing a piece of Hitler’s DNA, researchers found that Hitler had Kallmann Syndrome, which is revealed in an upcoming Channel 4 documentary, ‘Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint Of A Dictator’.

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