Huber is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,[2] and was elected in the federal state of Hesse whereas he failed to win the Darmstadt constituency.

Huber was born in 1956, the son of a Senegalese father, who was a diplomat and nephew of the former president of Senegal and philosopher Léopold Sédar Senghor, and a German mother in Munich.

In the German TV series Der Alte, Huber reached fame when he played the part of police superintendent Henry Johnson[4] from 1986 to 1997.

[5] Since 2009, Huber has been a representative of the international council of the association Austrian Service Abroad, which is also attended by others, including Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, György Dalos, Alberto Dines, Gabriela von Habsburg, Beate Klarsfeld, Branko Lustig, Erika Rosenberg and Ben Segenreich.

In June 2016, Huber announced that he would not stand in the 2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.