Herbert Hupka
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Dr. phil. Herbert Hupka (born August 15, 1915 in Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka, grown up in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, Germany (now Racibórz, Poland); died August 24, 2006, Bonn (Germany)) was a German journalist and politician (CDU, formerly SPD). He was expelled from the Wehrmacht in 1944 because his mother was Jewish. She was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp but could survive. Hupka was a member of the German parliament 1969-1987 and president of the Landsmannschaft Schlesien 1968-2000. Herbert Hupka was also president of the Ostdeutscher Kulturrat and Vice President of the Federation of Expellees (Bund der Vertriebenen).
He was considered a main representative of the right wing of the Federation of Expellees. As an example, in 1984 he expressed the view, that German settlements outside of Germany as of December 1937, even those between Baltic and Black seas, also constituted rightfully parts of East Germany.
Hupka, once the target of communist hate propaganda, was employed by the local government of Silesia as an advisor and was recently made Citizen of Honour of Racibórz.
