Mikl�s N�meth served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 24 November 1988 to 23 May 1990. He was one of the leaders of the Socialist Workers' Party, Hungary's Communist party, in the tumultuous years that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. He was the last Communist Prime Minister of Hungary. Mikl�s N�meth graduated from Karl Marx University in Budapest and subsequently attended Harvard. He began working for the Socialist Workers' Party economic department in 1981, was promoted to the Central Committee as Secretary in charge of economic policy in June 1987, and was elevated to the Politburo in May 1988. After being promoted to Prime Minister in November 1988, N�meth took the controversial decision to allow East Germans, long held captive by their country's communist regime,to travel through Hungary en route to freedom in West Germany. This decision is widely credited with helping to bring about the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. 

January 24th, 1948 in Monok (Age 76)