German media reported Kohl died at his home in Ludwigshafen. Kohl led Germany from 1982 to 1998. In addition to bringing East and West Germany back together after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ...

1947 – Begins working in the Christian Democratic Union. 1959-1976 – Serves in the legislature of the West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. 1969-1976 – Serves as minister-president of ...

President Biden claimed he spoke with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, in 2021 while recalling past conversations during fundraising events on Wednesday. The gaffe marks his ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - 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 ...

In 1946as time extended its reach overseas, and the despotic dreams of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito lay in ashesa nascent alliance of free peoples spanning the North Atlantic was just starting to ...

Updated at 4:57 p.m. ET 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 ...

President Joe Biden mixed up former German Chancellor Angela Merkel with late German leader Helmut Kohl twice while speaking at campaign events in New York on Wednesday, the second time this week the ...

Kohl worked for German reunification, campaigning in East Germany for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and getting NATO and the Soviet Union’s approval. 1947 – Begins working in the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Helmut Kohl was a Chancellor for the Christian Democratic Union Party in Germany with 61 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1986 News Conference.