Kohl remained as leader of the opposition, under the third Schmidt cabinet ( 1980 – 82 ).

The second Kohl cabinet pushed through several controversial plans, including the stationing of NATO midrange missiles, against major opposition from the peace movement.

In 1994 he ran as the SPD's candidate for German chancellor against Helmut Kohl ( CDU ), lost, and became leader of the opposition.

Reagan agreed, and later told an aide he felt he owed Kohl, who despite considerable public and political opposition had stood steadfast with Reagan on the deployment of Pershing II missiles in West Germany, when Reagan had been determined to respond to the placement of Soviet missiles that threatened Europe.

The CDU won in some important state elections but was hit in 2000 by a party donation scandal from the Kohl years.

Kohl is best known for orchestrating reunification with the approval of all the Four Powers from World War II, who still had a voice in German affairs.

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.

The name comes from the German Kohl (" cabbage ") plus Rübe ~ Rabi ( Swiss German variant ) (" turnip "), because the swollen stem resembles the latter, hence its Austrian name Kohlrübe.

* 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.

In 2002, Kohl left the Bundestag and officially retired from politics.

However, Kohl has retreated from public life to a far greater extent than his predecessor Helmut Schmidt.

On 5 July 2001, Hannelore Kohl, his wife, committed suicide, after suffering from photodermatitis for years.

* In 1996, Kohl received an award for his humanitarian achievements from the Jewish organisation B ' nai B ' rith.

* In 1996, Kohl received a Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, a Jesuit run institution.

* In 1999, Kohl received Presidential Medal of Freedom from U. S. President Clinton.

The CDU / CSU managed to get the FDP to defect from its coalition with the SPD in 1982, and thus CDU leader Helmut Kohl became Chancellor of West Germany.

Later agreements in the period of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl ( from 1982 through German reunification in 1990 ), although dealing with similar issues and having similar goals, are not considered to be " Ostpolitik ".

Mitterrand agreed to reunification in exchange for a commitment from Kohl to the European Economic and Monetary Union.

Helmut Kohl, the German chancellor from 1982 to 1998, who came from the Palatinate, gave the heretofore very local dish some international recognition.

* Herb Kohl ( WI, from 2000 )

A pocket book novel by Bernt Engelmann, " Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz " from 1974, also created a public image of Schleyer being the key figure of a conservative network with the aim of bringing Helmut Kohl and Kurt Biedenkopf to power in the West German federal government in Bonn.

Kohl ’ s operates differently from traditional department stores, like Macy's or Nordstrom.

Among the notable alumni from the university of Mainz are German politicians Rainer Brüderle ( FDP, Federal Minister for Economics and Technology ), Horst Teltschik ( former Securitiy Advisor of Chancler Helmut Kohl and president of the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Christina Schroeder, Federal Minister of Family and Social Affairs and Franz Josef Jung ( CDU, Former Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and former Federal Minister of Defence ), as well as sports journalist Béla Réthy, political journalist Peter Scholl-Latour, Dieter Stolte, the former General Intendant of ZDF, the biggest television in Europe, and soprano Elisabeth Scholl.

He served as German Defence minister from April 1, 1992, succeeding Gerhard Stoltenberg during the first government of a reunified Germany in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Kohl, to the end of the fifth Kohl Cabinet on October 27, 1998.

On May 21, 2012, the Bucks, owner Herb Kohl and representatives from BMO Harris Bank announced that the bank had officially purchased the naming rights for the Bradley Center and it would now be called the " BMO Harris Bradley Center ".

* Chancellor Helmut Kohl ( West Germany )

* 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.

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.

In 1987, Kohl received East German leader Erich Honecker-the first ever visit by an East German head of state to West Germany.

This is generally seen as a sign that Kohl pursued Ostpolitik, a policy of détente between East and West that had been begun by the SPD-led governments ( and strongly opposed by Kohl's own CDU ) during the 1970s.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kohl confirmed that historically German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line were definitively part of the Republic of Poland, thereby finally ending the West German territorial claims.

CDU Chairman Helmut Kohl became the new Chancellor of West Germany and his CDU-FDP coalition was confirmed in the 1983 federal election.

East German CDU leader Lothar de Maizière ( left ) with West German CDU leader Helmut Kohl, September 1990

On 28 November 1989 — two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall — West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced a 10-point program calling for the two Germanies to expand their cooperation with the view toward eventual reunification.

Kohl agreed, although less than 20 % of West Germans supported remaining within NATO ; he also wished to avoid a neutral Germany, as he believed that would destroy NATO, cause the United States and Canada to leave Europe, and Britain and France would form an alliance.

East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière had proposed that Becher's lyrics be added to the united German anthem, but this was rejected by his West German counterpart, Helmut Kohl.

On 22 December 1989, the Brandenburg Gate crossing was reopened when Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, walked through to be greeted by Hans Modrow, the East German prime minister.

Krenz also argued that the prosecution of former GDR officials was a breach of a personal agreement given by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev during their talks, which led to German reunification.

On 28 November, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl outlined the 10-Point Plan for the peaceful unification of the two German states, based on free elections in East Germany and a unification of their two economies.

In 1990, the Berlin Wall came down and Helmut Kohl made a deal with Gorbachev allowing the reunification of Germany provided the Soviet army could remain in East Germany and be paid by West Germany for three years.

* Helmut Kohl, chancellor of West Germany and later the unified Germany.

" After reports of child trafficking and child slavery associated with cocoa plantations in West Africa surfaced in the media, Harkin, along with U. S. Representative Eliot Engel and with the support of U. S. Senator Herbert Kohl, sponsored a voluntary agreement by major players in the cocoa and chocolate industry signed in 2001 and often referred to as the Harkin-Engel Protocol.

More detailed negotiations extended throughout 1987, aided by the decision of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in August to unilaterally remove the joint U. S .- West German Pershing IA systems.