Bayume Mohamed Husen | |
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| Born | 22 February 1904 |
| Died | 24 November 1944 (aged 40) |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, soldier |
| Years active | 1904-1944 |
| Spouse | Maria Schwandner |
Bayume Mohamed Husen (born Mahjub bin Adam Mohamed; 22 February 1904 – 24 November 1944) was an Afro-German soldier, actor and victim of Nazi persecution.
Husen, the son of a former askari officer, served together with his father in World War I with German colonial troops in East Africa. Later, he worked as a waiter on a German shipping line and was able to move to Germany in 1929. He married and started a family in January 1933. Husen supported the German neo-colonialist movement and contributed to the Deutsche Afrika-Schau, a former human zoo used by Nazi political propagandists. Husen worked as a waiter and in various minor jobs in language tutoring and in smaller roles in various Africa-related German film productions. In 1941, he was imprisoned in the KZ Sachsenhausen, where he died in 1944.
His life was the subject of a 2007 biography and a 2014 documentary film.