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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛlmuːt ˈkoːl] ⓘ; 3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990, Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of any ...
Helmut Kohl (born April 3, 1930, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany—died June 16, 2017, Ludwigshafen am Rhein) was a German politician who served as chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990 and of the reunified German nation from 1990 to 1998. He presided over the integration of East Germany into West Germany in 1990 and thus became the first ...
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Jun 16, 2017 · Helmut Joseph Michael Kohl was born in Ludwigshafen on April 3, 1930, the third and last child of Cäcilie E. and Hans Kohl, a civil servant and tax expert who had been a soldier in World War I.
Jun 16, 2017 · BERLIN (AP) — Helmut Kohl, one of the towering figures of European politics whose greatest achievement is considered the skillful reunification of a divided Germany, has died at 87. Kohl, who was chancellor first of West Germany and then of a united Germany from 1982 to 1998, combined a dogged pursuit of the European idea of unity with a keen instinct for history. Less than a year after the ...
Helmut Kohl wurde 1930 als drittes Kind des Finanzbeamten Hans Kohl (1887–1975) und seiner Frau Cäcilie, geb. Schnur (1891–1979), im Ludwigshafener Stadtteil Friesenheim geboren. Hier wuchs er zusammen mit seiner Schwester Hildegard (1922–2003) und seinem Bruder Walter (1926–1944) in einer konservativ-katholisch geprägten Familie auf.
Jun 17, 2017 · “Helmut Kohl was the most important European statesman since World War II,” Bill Clinton, the former U.S. president, said in 2011, adding that Kohl answered the big questions of his time “correctly for Germany, correctly for Europe, correctly for the United States, correctly for the future of the world.”
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Jun 16, 2017 · Link Copied! German statesman Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification after the end of the Cold War, has died, his Christian Democratic Union party announced Friday. He was 87. Kohl ...
