Gyula Horn Siblings: A Closer Look at the Former Hungary Prime Minister’s Family Tree
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Gyula János Horn was a Hungarian politician and economist born on 5 July 1932 in Budapest and who died on 19 June 2013 in the same city.
He came from a poor working-class family of Jewish origin that had converted to Lutheranism.
His father, Géza Horn, worked as a transport and furniture worker and held left-wing views; he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 for communist activities and never returned.