Gyula Horn

Gyula Horn was elected prime minister of the Republic of Hungary on July 15, 1994. He was first elected to Parliament in 1990. He is a founder of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), formed in 1989, and became its chairman in 1990. He was minister of foreign affairs from 1989 to 1990.
Gyula Horn was born in Budapest, Hungary, on July 5, 1932. He graduated from the Don-Rostov College of Economics and Finance in 1954. Mr. Horn worked in the Ministry of Finance from 1954 to 1959, in the Hungarian embassies in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, and in the Foreign Ministry as state secretary. Mr. Horn has received several awards for his achievements in foreign relations, among others the Charlemagne Award of the city of Aachen in 1990.