The local pol said he usually goes by Adolf Uunona in daily life and argued it’s too late to formally change his name.
“It’s in all official documents. It’s too late for that,” he told German newspaper Bild in 2020.
For context for folks in the US, the US makes it pretty easy to change your name. Ditto for a number of other countries that derive from the British legal tradition. A number of countries have considerably more restrictive law on this point.
That’s assuming the original birth certificate still exists. I don’t know how well these things were archived in Namibia in the 1960s, but I wouldn’t just assume it could still be found.
For context for folks in the US, the US makes it pretty easy to change your name. Ditto for a number of other countries that derive from the British legal tradition. A number of countries have considerably more restrictive law on this point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_change
How do you change your name in Namibia?
It’s not that fucking hard to not be Adolf Hitler
I see a lot of people nowadays trying very hard to be him
That’s assuming the original birth certificate still exists. I don’t know how well these things were archived in Namibia in the 1960s, but I wouldn’t just assume it could still be found.
Same in Quebec, except there’s no need for the police clearance certificate.