Gyula Horn

1990

Text of the Certificate of Honour

Karlspreis der Stadt Aachen 1990
Gyula Horn
Gesamteuropa - Von der Spaltung zur Einheit.

Vita

1932

Born in Budapest

Start of work at the Hungarian Ministry of Finance

1954

1959

Transfer to the Foreign Ministry

Joined the foreign policy department of the central committee of the Socialist Workers' Party

1971

1983

Assumption of the leadership of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers' Party

Member of the Central Committee, State Secretary, Foreign Ministry

1985

1989-1990

Foreign ministers during the upheaval

Opening of the border with Austria, enabling GDR citizens to leave the country

1989

1990

Leader of the Socialist Party and Member of Parliament

Hungarian Prime Minister

1994-1998

2013

deceased

Text of the Certificate of Honour

On Ascension Day, 24 May 1990, in the Coronation Hall of the City Hall, the former imperial palace, the International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen was awarded to the former Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary, Gyula Horn, in recognition of his services to the solidarity between the peoples of Europe in East and West in the spirit of humanity.