CRITICAL FAREWELL SPEECH. Chancellor Helmut Kohl had kind words for his predecessor. Helmut Schmidt is “one of the great parliamentary and political figures in West German history,” he said. In what ...

West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the leader of a country at the center of the controversy over the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe, expressed optimism Tuesday that since the Reykjavik ...

West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl warned Wednesday that any nuclear arms reduction involving Europe would have to take into account the Soviets` huge superiority in conventional military forces.

QUOTING KOHL. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Sunday he was misquoted when Newsweek reported him talking about Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Helmut Kohl was a Chancellor for the Christian Democratic Union Party in Germany with 61 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1986 News Conference.

BERLIN — Helmut Kohl, the physically imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe, has died at 87. Subscribe to read ...

Helmut Kohl, the physically imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe, died Friday at his home in Ludwigshafen. He ...

Helmut Kohl, the long-serving former chancellor whose life in the political limelight spanned the joyous zenith of German reunification and the shattering nadir of a corruption scandal, died Friday at ...