Helmut Josef Michael Kohl is a previous German politician (CDU). He was Germany's chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and also chairman of the CDU from 1973 to 1998.
His 16 year long reign was the longest of any kind of German chancellor considering that Otto von Bismarck. In his power, he was engineer of German marriage, and, together with the French head of state François Mitterrand, the Maastricht Treaty produced the European Union.
Kohl as well as Mitterrand got the Charlemagne Prize in 1988. In 1998, Kohl was the initial given that Jean Monnet, was appointed honorary citizen of Europe by the European Heads of State as well as Government.
In 2007, recommended the European Union in a letter to the Nobel Committee that Helmut Kohl will get the Nobel Peace Prize. At an interview on the celebration of the European collaboration 50th anniversary highlighted Commission President Barroso Kohl's significant payment to peace in Europe. The proposition was additionally supported by Poland's initial autonomous head of state Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and two former Polish foreign preachers, and also of Austria's Social Democratic Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. Also, former Nobel Peace Prize victor Mikhail Gorbachev revealed that he has actually written to the Nobel Committee and also the recommended Kohl. According to Gorbachev Kohl has actually "played an essential duty in the peaceful solution" of the events connected with the shift to democracy in Eastern Europe.
Our collection contains 9 quotes who is written / told by Helmut.
"You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity"
"Peace must be more than the absence of war"
"I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way"
"For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans"
"The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation"
"Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so"
"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people"
"The army is under orders to defend every place"
"George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity"
