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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (German pronunciation: [hlmut kol]; born 3 April 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 198298 (of West Germany between 1982 and 1990 and of the reunited Germany between 199098) and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 197398. His 16-year tenure was the longest of any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck and oversaw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification. Kohl is widely regarded as the main architect of the German reunification and, together with French president Franois Mitterrand, the Maastricht Treaty, which established the European Union.[1] Kohl and Mitterrand were the joint recipients of the Charlemagne Prize in 1988.[2] In 1996, he won the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation.[3] In 1998, Kohl was named Honorary Citizen of Europe by the European heads of state or government for his extraordinary work for European integration and cooperation, an honour previously only bestowed on Jean Monnet.[4] Kohl was described as "the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century" by U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush[5] and Bill Clinton.[6]
Helmut Kohl
Chancellor of Germany In office 1 October 1982 27 October 1998* President Karl Carstens Richard von Weizscker Roman Herzog Deputy Hans-Dietrich Genscher Jrgen Mllemann Klaus Kinkel Preceded by Succeeded by Helmut Schmidt Gerhard Schrder
Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate
1 Life
1.1 Youth 19 May 1969 2 December 1976 1.2 Life before politics Preceded by Peter Altmeier 1.3 Early political career Succeeded by Bernhard Vogel 1.4 Minister-President of RhinelandPersonal details Palatinate 1.5 The 1976 Bundestag election Born Helmut Josef Michael Kohl 1.6 Leader of the opposition 3 April 1930 2 Chancellor of West Germany Ludwigshafen, Germany 2.1 Rise to power Political party Centre Party (Before 1946) 2.2 The second cabinet Christian Democratic Union 2.3 The third cabinet (1946present) 2.4 The road to reunification 3 Chancellor of reunified Germany Spouse(s) Hannelore Renner (19602001) 4 Retirement and legal troubles Maike Richter (2008present) 4.1 CDU finance affair Alma mater Heidelberg University 4.2 Life after politics Settings... Citavi found 8 references to import directly. Click here to import the references.
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*From 1 October 1982 to 3 October 1990, Kohl was Chancellor of West Germany only. From 3 October 1990 until 27 October 1998, he was Chancellor for the reunified Germany.
Youth
Kohl was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (at the time part of Bavaria, now in Rhineland-Palatinate) Germany, the third child of Hans Kohl (18871975), a civil servant, and his wife, Ccilie (ne Schnur; 18901979). His family was conservative and Roman Catholic, and remained loyal to the Catholic Centre Party before and after 1933. His older brother died in the Second World War as a teenage soldier. In the last weeks of the war, Kohl was also drafted, but he was not involved in any combat. Kohl attended the Ruprecht elementary school, and continued at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium. In 1946, he joined the recently founded CDU. In 1947, he was one of the co-founders of the Junge Union-branch in Ludwigshafen. After graduating in 1950, he began to study law in Frankfurt am Main. In 1951, he switched to the University of Heidelberg where he majored in History and Political Science. In 1953, he joined the board of the Rhineland-Palatinate branch of the CDU. In 1954, he became vice-chair of the Junge Union in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1955, he returned to the board of the Rhineland-Palatinate branch of the CDU.[citation needed]
Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate
On 19 May 1969, Kohl was elected minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate, as the successor to Peter Altmeier. During his term as minister-president, Kohl founded the University of Trier-Kaiserslautern and enacted territorial reform. Also in 1969, Kohl became the vice-chair of the federal CDU party. In 1971, he
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position instead. In 1972, Barzel attempted to force a cabinet crisis in the SPD/FDP government, which failed, leading him to step down. In 1973, Kohl succeeded him as federal chairman; he retained this position until 1998.[citation needed]
Rise to power
On 1 October 1982, the CDU proposed a constructive vote of no confidence which was supported by the FDP. The motion carried. Three days later, the Bundestag voted in a new CDU/CSU-FDP coalition cabinet, with Kohl as the chancellor. Many of the important details of the new coalition had been hammered out on 20 September, though minor details were reportedly still being hammered out as the vote took place. Though Kohl's election was done according to the Basic Law, some voices criticized the move as the FDP had fought its 1980 campaign on the side of the SPD and even placed Chancellor Schmidt on some of their campaign posters. Some voices went as far as denying that the new government had the support of a majority of the people. In answer, the new government aimed at new elections at the earliest possible date. As the Basic Law is restrictive on the dissolution of parliament, Kohl had to take another controversial move: he called for a confidence vote only a month after being sworn in, in which members of his coalition abstained. The ostensibly negative result for Kohl then allowed President Karl Carstens to dissolve the Bundestag in January 1983.[citation needed] The move was controversial as the coalition parties denied their votes to the same man they had elected Chancellor a month before and whom they wanted to re-elect after the parliamentary election. However, this step was condoned by the German Federal Constitutional Court as a legal instrument and was again applied (by SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schrder and his Green allies) in 2005.
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declare the whole proceedings unconstitutional. It denied their claim. The second Kohl cabinet pushed through several controversial plans, including the stationing of NATO midrange missiles, against major opposition from the peace movement. On 24 January 1984, Kohl spoke before the Israeli Knesset, as the first Chancellor of the post-war generation. In his speech, he used liberal journalist Gnter Gaus' famous sentence that he had "the mercy of a late birth" ("Gnade der spten Geburt").[citation needed] On 22 September 1984 Kohl met the French president Franois Mitterrand at Verdun, where the Battle of Verdun between France and Germany had taken place during World War I. Together, they commemorated the deaths of both World Wars. The photograph, which depicted their minutes long handshake became an important symbol of French-German reconciliation. Kohl and Mitterrand developed a close political relationship, forming an important motor for European integration. Together, they laid the foundations for European projects, like Eurocorps and Arte. This French-German cooperation also was vital for important European projects, like the Treaty of Maastricht and the Euro. In 1985, Kohl and US President Ronald Reagan, as part of a plan to observe the 40th anniversary of V-E Day, saw an opportunity to demonstrate the strength of the friendship that existed between Germany and its former foe. During a November 1984 visit to the White House, Kohl appealed to Reagan to join him in symbolizing the reconciliation of their two countries at a German military cemetery. As Reagan visited Germany as part of the G6 conference in Bonn, the pair visited Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 5 May, and more controversially, the German military cemetery at Bitburg, discovered to hold 49 members of the Waffen-SS.[citation needed] In 1986, more controversy was caused by an essay published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 25 April 1986 entitled Land Without A History, written by one of Kohl's advisors, historian Michael Strmer, in which Strmer argued that West Germany lacked a history to be proud of, and called for effort on the part of the government, historians and the media to build national pride in German history. Though Strmer insisted that he was writing on behalf of himself and not in an official capacity as the Chancellor's advisor, many left-wing intellectuals claimed that Strmer's essay also expressed Kohl's views.
Following the breach of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the East German Communist regime in 1989, Kohl's handling of the East German issue would become the turning point of his chancellorship. Kohl, like most West Germans, was initially caught unawares when the Socialist Unity Party was toppled in late 1989. However, well aware of his constitutional mandate to seek German unity, he immediately moved to make it a reality. Taking
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Chancellor Kohl behind and to the right of U.S. President Ronald Reagan (center) at the Brandenburg Gate. President Reagan, challenging Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" in 1987
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"Overcoming of the division of Germany and Europe" without consulting his coalition partner, the FDP, or the Western Allies. In February 1990, he visited the Soviet Union seeking a guarantee from Mikhail Gorbachev that the USSR would allow German reunification to proceed. One month later, the Party of Democratic Socialism the renamed SED was roundly defeated by a grand coalition headed by the East German counterpart of Kohl's CDU, which ran on a platform of speedy reunification.[citation needed] By the spring of 1990, the East German economy had sunk into near-paralysis. Accordingly, on 18 May 1990, Kohl signed an economic and social union treaty with East Germany. Over the objections of Bundesbank president Karl Otto Phl, he allowed a 1:1 exchange rate for wages, interest and rent between the West and East Marks. In the end, this policy would seriously hurt companies in the new federal states. Together with Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Kohl was able to resolve talks with the former Allies of World War II to allow German reunification. He received assurances from Gorbachev that a reunified Germany would be able to choose which international alliance it wanted to join, although Kohl made no secret that he wanted the reunified Germany to remain part of NATO and the EC. A reunification treaty was signed on 31 August 1990, and was overwhelmingly approved by both parliaments on 20 September 1990. On 3 October 1990, East Germany officially ceased to exist, and its territory joined the Federal Republic as the five states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia; East and West Berlin were reunited as a city-state of the enlarged Federal Republic. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kohl confirmed that historically German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line were definitively part of the Republic of Poland, thereby finally ending the West German territorial claims. In 1993, Kohl confirmed, via treaty with the Czech Republic, that Germany would no longer bring forward territorial claims as to the pre-1945 ethnic German so-called Sudetenland. This treaty was a disappointment for the German Heimatvertriebene ("displaced persons").[7][8][9]
Helmut Kohl in Krzyowa (Kreisau), Poland, 1989.
Reunification placed Kohl in a momentarily unassailable position. In the 1990 elections the first free, fair and democratic all-German elections since the Weimar Republic era Kohl won by a landslide over opposition candidate and Minister-President of Saarland, Oskar Lafontaine. He then formed his fourth cabinet. After the federal elections of 1994 Kohl was narrowly re-elected. He defeated the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate Rudolf Scharping. The SPD was however able to win a majority in the Bundesrat, which significantly limited Kohl's power. In foreign Helmut Kohl in 1990. politics, Kohl was more successful, for instance getting Frankfurt am Main as the seat for the European Central Bank. In 1997, Kohl received the Vision for Europe Award for his efforts in the unification of Europe. By the late 1990s, the aura surrounding Kohl had largely worn off amid rising unemployment. He was heavily defeated in the 1998 federal elections by the Minister-President of Lower Saxony, Gerhard Schrder.[citation needed]
A red-green coalition government led by Schrder replaced Kohl's government on 27 October 1998. He immediately resigned as CDU leader and largely retired from politics. However, he remained a member of the Bundestag he decided not to run forhere reelection the 2002 election. Settings... Citavi found 8until references to import directly. Click to importin the references.
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Kohl was committed to European integration, maintaining close relations with the French president Mitterrand. Parallel to this he was committed to German reunification. Although he continued the Ostpolitik of his social-democratic predecessor, Kohl supported Reagan's more aggressive policies in order to weaken the USSR.[citation needed]
Kohl faced stiff opposition from the West German political left and was as well mocked upon for his provincial background, physical stature and simple language. Similar to historical French cartoons of Louis-Philippe of France, Hans Traxler depicted Kohl as a pear in the left-leaning satirical journal Titanic.[19] The German word "Birne" ("pear") became a widespread nickname and symbol for the Chancellor.[20]
Honors
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In 1988, Kohl and Mitterrand received the Karlspreis for his contribution to Franco-German friendship and European Union.[2] In 1996, Kohl received the Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation In 1996, he was made honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain. In 1996, Kohl received an award for his humanitarian achievements from the Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith. In 1996, Kohl received a Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, a Jesuit run institution. On 11 December 1998, the European Council awarded him the title Honorary Citizen of Europe, a title which only Jean Monnet had received before.[4][21] In 1998, he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Brandeis University in Massachusetts.[22] In 1998, he was only the second person to be awarded the Grand Cross in Special Design of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the other being Konrad Adenauer.[23] In 1999, Kohl received Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. president Clinton. Kohl is honorary citizen of both Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. On 2 September 2005, he was made an honorary citizen of his home town, Ludwigshafen. In 2007, he received the Gold Medal of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe for his contribution to the unity of Europe. On 16 May 2011, Kohl received the Henry A. Kissinger Prize at the American Academy in Berlin for his "singularly extraordinary role in German reunification and laying the foundation for a lasting democratic peace in the new millennium".[24]
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1. ^ Chambers, Mortimer. The Western Experience. 2. ^ a b "Der Karlspreistrger 1988" (http://www.karlspreis.de/index.php?id=12& doc=30) (in German). Stiftung Internationaler Karlspreis zu Aachen. Retrieved 1 March 2008. 3. ^ Helmut Kohl (http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/ing/04 /premiados/trayectorias/trayectoria667.html) 4. ^ a b "European leaders honour Kohl" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe /233191.stm) . BBC NEWS. 11 December 1998. 5. ^ Time, Helmut Kohl, by George H. W. Bush (http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero2006 /kohl.html) 6. ^ M&C news, "Clinton praises Germany's Kohl at Berlin Award", by Deutsche Presse Agentur (http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe
Germany-s-Kohl-at-Berlin-award) 7. ^ Rdder 2009, S. 236 f.; Heinrich August Winkler: Der lange Weg nach Westen. Zweiter Band: Deutsche Geschichte vom Dritten Reich bis zur Wiedervereinigung. Fnfte, durchgesehene Auflage, Mnchen 2002, S. 552. 8. ^ "Whrend die polnische Seite noch weiter auf die Heimatvertriebenen zugehen mu - Worte allein sind eben nicht genug - mssen die ... Verstndliche Enttuschung und Verbitterung in den Reihen der Vertriebenen, die vielfach zu einer Verweigerungshaltung gefhrt haben, drfen ..." (Friedbert Pflger, Winfried Lipscher, Feinde werden Freunde: Von den Schwierigkeiten der deutsch-polnischen Nachbarschaft, Bouvier Verlag, 1993, p. 425. 9. ^ "Kohl hat das Gegenteil getan und dadurch Enttuschung und Bitterkeit geradezu
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