Hubert Rohde (February 27, 1929 in Hildesheim) is a German politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union.
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Hubert Rohde was born in a Christian family in Hildesheim. To avoid being recruited by the Waffen-SS he "volunteered" in the heavy artillery, a that he knew wasn't under the SS' domain, he never actually served for war.
After the war he studied philosophy, [[History of art ]], pedagogy, archaeology as well as theology in Frankfurt, Munich, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Dublin. Since then he is a member in the Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine.
Hubert Rohde was married, his wife Karin (born Attorf) died in 1988. He has four children. Since 1962 he lives in Mandelbachtal ind Saarland.
After getting his doctarate in philosophy (1953) Rohde worked mainly as Teacher and later as docent at the universities of Paderborn and Saarbrücken. In the year 1965 he was habilitated to professor in pedagogy.
He became member of Saarland's parliament in 1970 where he first presided the cultural committee and later became the parliament's vice-president.
In 1977 we was voted the SR's artistic director a position he kept until 1988.
From 1988 to the year 200x he was general secretary of the Deutsch-Französischen Kulturrates .
For several years he was Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre a prestigious Catholic chivalric order that assists amongst others schools and hospitals in Palestina. For his engagement in the Franco-German cooperations France's president awarded him the Légion d'honneur's cross.