Topic: Helmut Kohl
Quotes
We have peace, and one cannot expect anything more. I am particularly grateful for this, and thank all those who helped in achieving it
Winslet, Walz honored in Germany Nov 27, 2009
I told her that not even Margaret Thatcher could stop a people from deciding its own fate
Kohl says Thatcher enraged by German unity Nov 03, 2005
We have to continue to work hard so that the equalization is finalized
20 years on, Germans debate state of unity Oct 01, 2010
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (German pronunciation: ; born 3 April 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany between 1982 and 1990 and of a reunited Germany between 1990 and 1998) and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. 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 one of the main architects of the German reunification and, together with French President François Mitterrand, the Maastricht Treaty, which created the European Union.
Kohl and François Mitterrand were the joint recipients of the Karlspreis in 1988. 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. In 1996, he won the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation.
Kohl has been described as "the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century" by former U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
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