Gyula Horn
| Gyula Horn | |
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| Prime Minister of Hungary | |
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In office 15 July 1994 – 6 July 1998 |
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| President | Árpád Göncz |
| Preceded by | Péter Boross |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Orbán |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
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In office 2 May 1990 – 13 May 2010 |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 10 May 1989 – 23 May 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Miklós Németh |
| Preceded by | Péter Várkonyi |
| Succeeded by | Géza Jeszenszky |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 July 1932 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | 19 June 2013 (aged 80) Budapest, Hungary |
| Political party | MSZP (1989–2013) |
| Other political affiliations |
MDP (1954–1956) MSZMP (1956–1989) |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Király |
| Children | Anna Gyula |
Gyula Horn (5 July 1932 – 19 June 2013) was a Hungarian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary from 1994 to 1998.
Horn is remembered as the last Communist Foreign Minister of Hungary who played a major role in the demolishing of the "Iron Curtain" for East Germans in 1989, contributing to the later unification of Germany, and for the Bokros package, the biggest fiscal austerity programme in post-communist Hungary, launched under his premiership, in 1995.
Horn was born in Budapest in 1932 as the third child of transport worker Géza Horn and factory worker Anna Csörnyei. They lived in conditions of poverty at the so-called "Barrack" estate between Nagyicce and Sashalom. There were seven brothers in the family: filmmaker Géza (1925–1956), Károly (1930–1946), Tibor (1935), Sándor (1939), Tamás (1942) and Dénes (1944).
After the German occupation of Hungary, his father was kidnapped by the Gestapo due to communist activities in 1944 and never returned home. Gyula Horn's niece is Szófia Havas (b. Szófia Horn, 1955), Member of Parliament between 2006 and 2010, whose father Géza, Jr. was killed under unclear circumstances during the 1956 revolution.
He first studied in a lower technicians' school in Hungary. He graduated from the Rostov-on-Don College of Economics and Finance in 1954. He finished the political academy of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) in 1970. He received Candidate of Economic Sciences in 1977.
He married statistician Anna Király in February 1956 and had two children: Anna (1956) and Gyula, Jr. (1969).
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