Martin Horn

Martin Werner Walter Horn (né Hoffmann; born November 7, 1984) is a German politician. In 2018 he became mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Freiburg im Breisgau. Early life Horn was born in Annweiler am Trifels. He was the son of a Protestant pastor and grew up with his three sisters in a clergy house in Hornbach. He was engaged in church youth work from an early age, acting as a youth leader in the association "Feuer und Flamme" as part of the Hornbach church community. In 2009, Horn began studying international social work at the Protestant University Ludwigsburg and finished his bachelor's degree in 2013. Following these studies, in 2014 he earned a master's degree in European and world politics at City University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. He studied abroad in Botswana, Jordan, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. In 2014 he started working as the coordinator for Europe and development in the Sindelfingen city administration and as a free-lance docent at Protestant University Ludwigsburg. Career In 2018, Horn ran for mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau without party affiliation. The SPD and the voter initiative Freiburg Lebenswert supported his campaign. During his campaign, the media questioned Horn's relationship to the evangelical neo-charismatic ICF and their engagement with his campaign team. Horn clarified in an interview that he was neither part of ICF nor any other independent church, but a member of the Protestant church.