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Helmut Kohl

1930–2017 · 20th century

Helmut Kohl was a German Christian Democratic politician who was Chancellor of West Germany and then of reunified Germany from 1982 to 1998, the longest-serving chancellor since Bismarck. After the fall of the Berlin Wall he pushed rapidly for reunification, achieved on 3 October 1990. With François Mitterrand he drove European integration, including the Maastricht Treaty and the euro.

Helmut Kohl — Image: Christian Lambiotte · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Federal Republic of Germany

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