Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl dead at 87

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 16 June 2017 | foreign staff

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Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl has died

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Short article-short excerpt.

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Bild reported in its online edition that Kohl died in the morning in his home in Ludwigshafen, in western Germany.

“We mourn,” Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) tweeted with a picture of the former chancellor.

Germany’s longest serving post-war chancellor from 1982 to 1998, Kohl was a driving force behind the introduction of the euro currency, convincing sceptical Germans to give up their cherished deutschemark.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/16/former-german-chancellorhelmut-kohl-dead-87/

[Vendome]

No kidding.

Thought he passed a long time ago...

RIP

[rdl6989]

Agreed, I thought he was dead years ago, but I might have been thinking of Erich Honecker.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Puppage]

So, he’s kohl to the touch now?

[virgil]

Years ago, I believe his wife passed away. I remember it being reported as a suicide. She had a health condition that she couldn’t live with, I guess. I think it was a skin disease, she couldn’t even go outside.

[Incorrigible]

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The last of the triumvirate.

[samtheman]

When the Western World was still the Western World.

[Busko]

Agree!!! Was stationed in West Germany in the early 80s.

[Billthedrill]

RIP.

[rdl6989]

This is an excellent photo.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Maybe it's the Mandela Effect?

Or maybe we should start calling it the Kohl Controversy.

[rdl6989]

I’ll take the Mandela Effect.

[rdl6989]

Thank you for your service.

[trisham]

Awesome pic.

[Verginius Rufus]

I remember a story that was reported when Kohl was chancellor (early in his tenure). He was in the US and attending a social function. An American came up to him and said, “I’m of German descent!” Kohl replied, “So am I.”