This has happened three times: 1972 under Chancellor Willy Brandt, 1983 under Chancellor Helmut Kohl and 2005 under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

More recently, the work of conservative CDU leader Helmut Kohl helped bring about German Reunification, along with the closer integration of Europe in the form of the Maastricht Treaty.

It last participated in the federal government by representing the junior partner in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the CDU.

After 16 years of the Christian-Liberal coalition, led by Helmut Kohl, the Social Democrats together with the Greens won the elections of 1998.

The alliance was especially close in the late 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl and Socialist François Mitterrand.

Helmut Kohl became first chancellor of a reunified Germany.

Helmut Kohl ( b. 1930 ) brought the conservatives back to power with a CDU / CSU-FDP coalition in 1982, and served as Chancellor until 1998.

The appointments and dismissals of members of the German cabinet is approved by President of Germany | President Richard von Weizsäcker ( right ), on the advice of Chancellor of Germany ( Federal Republic of Germany ) | Chancellor Helmut Kohl ( left ) in 1991.

Still, Genscher was one of the FDP's driving forces when, in 1982, the party switched sides from its coalition with the SPD to support the CDU / CSU in their Constructive Vote of No Confidence to have Helmut Schmidt replaced with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor.

In 1987, Rau tried to become chancellor of Germany for the SPD, but his refusal to contemplate forming a coalition with the Green Party meant he could not win the elections against Helmut Kohl ’ s Christian Democrats ( CDU ).

-Chancellor Helmut Kohl paid an official visit to Nepal in 1987

* Chancellor Helmut Kohl ( West Germany )

* December 2 – The German federal election, the first election held since German reunification is won by Helmut Kohl, who becomes Chancellor of Germany.

* November – More than 350, 000 people rally in Berlin to protest right-wing violence against immigrants, but the event is marred by radical leftists thowing stones and eggs at President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker and Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl.

** Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.

* May 5 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan joins German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S. S. troops from World War II.

* April 20 – NATO debates modernising short range missiles ; although the U. S. and U. K. are in favour, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision.

** Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany

They were also made against Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Chancellor of West Germany ( later all of Germany ), Helmut Kohl, when in power.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany had decided to visit Moscow to negotiate German reunification, signalling to Powell that the last gasp of American power in Europe to be replaced by a new balance of power not resting on military force but on the " recognition of the restraints which the ultimate certainty of failure places upon the ambitions of the respective national states.

He was received with full state honours by West Germany's Helmut Kohl — an act that seemed to confirm West Germany's acceptance of East Germany's existence.

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (; born 3 April 1930 ) is a German conservative politician and statesman.

Helmut Kohl, 1969

He was replaced by Helmut Schmidt ( b. 1918 ), of the SPD, who served as Chancellor in 1974 – 1982.

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; born 23 December 1918 ) is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.

File: Schmidt. JPG | Helmut Schmidt served 1974 – 1982, born 1918

File: Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F074398-0021 Kohl ( cropped ). jpg | Helmut Kohl served 1982 – 1998, born 1930

In that capacity, he served as a " sherpa " ( personal representative ) for Chancellor Helmut Kohl, preparing G7 summits and other international economic conferences.

He served as Minister of State at the Foreign Office ( 1982 – 1987 ), as Federal Minister of Education and Research ( 1987 – 1991 ), as Federal Minister of Economics ( 1991 – 1993 ) and as Vice Chancellor of Germany ( 1992 – 1993 ) in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) formed a coalition and he served as Chancellor from 1974 to 1982.

After the reunification of Germany, she served in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

He served as Federal Minister of Justice ( 1991 – 1992 ), Foreign Minister ( 1992 – 1998 ) and Vice Chancellor of Germany ( 1993 – 1998 ) in the government of Helmut Kohl.

When Baron Helmut Zemo formed the fourth incarnation of the Masters of Evil, Fixer served as his right-hand man.

Blackwill served as a special assistant to State Department counselor Helmut Sonnenfeldt in 1974.

The following historians from the Institute served as expert witnesses for the prosecution ; Helmut Krausnick, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Hans Buchheim, and Martin Broszat.

At the 1963 – 1965 Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt, Broszat together with other experts from the Institute of Contemporary History such as Helmut Krausnick, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen and Hans Buchheim served as expert witnesses for the prosecution.

He served as Federal Minister of Finance of Germany in the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1989 to 1998, and as Chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria from 1988 to 1999.

On 1 October 1982, parliament approved of a Vote of No-Confidence and elected the CDU chairman Helmut Kohl as the new Chancellor.

With the exception of Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor has usually also been chairman of his or her own party.

His last two decades were also marked by a fierce rivalry with CDU chairman Helmut Kohl.

* Helmut Panke, former chairman and CEO of BMW AG

Headed by chairman Helmut Werner, the company was responsible for the construction and management of the fair.

Jil Sander was sold to the private equity firm Change Capital Partners, which was headed by Luc Vandevelde, the chairman of Carrefour, while the Helmut Lang label is now owned by Japanese fashion company Link Theory.

In October 1982 CDU chairman Helmut Kohl was elected Chancellor by a CDU / CSU and FDP majority in the Bundestag, while the FDP in 1980 still was on the side of the SPD.

CDU and CSU tried to achieve an absolute majority of the votes to make CDU chairman Helmut Kohl Chancellor.

Häupl followed Helmut Zilk in 1993 as a state party chairman of the SPÖ and on 7 November 1994, he became the mayor of Vienna.