Germany's Parliament has honored former Chancellor Helmut Kohl in a special memorial session, remembering him as the architect of German reunification but also not without flaws.

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who for more than a decade and a half helmed a country through historic upheaval, died Friday at age 87. The German leader's political party, the Christian ...

Helmut Michael Kohl was born to conservative Catholic parents on April 3, 1930, in Ludwigshafen, a small city on the Rhine River in western Germany. His father worked for the local tax and revenue ...

As before, Kohl refused to name the donors who gave the party some one million dollars in undeclared contributions. He says he promised the donors anonymity, and won't break his word.

Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of Germany's 1990 reunification and mentor to Angela Merkel, has died at age 87, his Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) said on Friday.

The mass-selling newspaper Bild reported that Kohl died at 9.15 a.m. on Friday morning in bed at his home in Ludwigshafen, in western Germany, with his second wife, Maike Kohl-Richter, at his side.

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.

All this changed in 1989, when the East German regime began to crumble and the Berlin Wall came down. Helmut Kohl, in his own words, "grabbed the mantle of history." He was the driving force behind ...

FORMER German chancellor Helmut Kohl has died aged 87. The so-called “father of reunification” was modern Germany’s longest serving chancellor, he presided over the end of the Cold War and ...

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose reputation for uniting his country was stained by a party funding scandal, has hit back at critics in a new book. world > europe CNN.com EUROPE: ...

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification, died on Friday (16 June), the mass-selling newspaper Bild reported. He was 87.