CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Personal:Birth date: April 3, 1930 Death date: June 16, 2017 Birth place: Ludwigshafen am Rhine (in ...

Mr. Kohl was sincere in his attempts to help us cope with both economic and political turbulence surfacing after the Soviet Union’s collapse." Boris Yeltsin and Helmut Kohl were friends ...

answering a reporter’s question whether Helmut Kohl made a mistake believing that he and Mikhail Gorbachev stopped the Cold War between the West and Soviet Union. "Now the pendulum has swung a ...

Kohl worked for German reunification, campaigning in East Germany for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU ... Charlemagne Award for efforts towards European unification. October 3, 1990 ...

1947 – Begins working in the Christian Democratic Union. 1959-1976 ... Francois Mitterrand, Kohl receives the Charlemagne Award for efforts towards European unification.