Former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl passes away

10:39, 17 июня 2017, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Tatyana KUDRYAVTSEVA

The day before, the former chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl died. The world media reported.

Фото Internet

It is noted that he died on Friday morning, June his own house in  am Rhein in the south-west of the country at the age of  the last years of his life, the politician was in a wheelchair and had health problems.

«Helmut Kohl has been the longest-serving leader of the post-war . He headed the government of  for 16 years — from 1982 to 1998. He is the only German politician who served as chancellor for four consecutive terms. During his leadership in 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic unified into a single . He was also a supporter of the introduction of a single European currency and urged the Germans to abandon the national currency — the Deutsche mark. Kohl led the party Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1973–1998," RBK reported.