Helmut Kohl

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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (* 3 April 1930 in Ludwigshafen) is a German CDU politician. From 1969 to 1976 he was the Prime Minister of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1982 to 1998 Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Kohl helped to arrange the process of the German unification and participated considerably in the European agreement process. Disputed it is in particular due to its offences against the party law in connection with the CDU donation affair.