KRISTIAN HORN (1903-1981) and his wife Ester were from 1951 onwards the driving force behind the introduction of secular civil confirmation ceremonies in Norway. Horn was typical example of an IHEU 'filed representative' of the time who established, with IHEU support, a national Humanist organization. The organization he founded in 1956 was Human-Etisk Forbund (Norwegian Humanist Association) and he remained the main ideologist and leader until 1976. Horn was a member of the IHEU Board of Directors from 1957 until his death, when Levi Fragell took over.