Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died
Helmut Kohl, who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998, has died on Friday, German newspaper Bild notes.
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was born on 3 April 1930.
Kohl’s 16-year tenure was the longest of any German Chancellor since Otto von Bismarck, and by far the longest of any democratically elected Chancellor. Kohl oversaw the end of the Cold War, and is widely regarded as the main architect of the German reunification. Together with French President François Mitterrand, Kohl is also considered to be the architect of the Maastricht Treaty, which established the European Union (EU).
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Kohl has been described as “the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century” by U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. With the death of Helmut Schmidt in November 2015, he became the oldest living former German chancellor.
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