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/
So, he’s kohl to the touch now?
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.”