At the beginning he is a modern Conservative, then, is a living monument. Helmut Kohl had a lot of political life. Not just glorious. What really remains, is the design of the German unit and the European policy.
Asked how he think it is because with monuments that could be built in his honor, was Helmut Kohl quite humorous: When the guests were gone, not come, first the pigeons, then the dogs, he replied quite modest. “What are you doing in each case is known.”
At the latest with the fall of the Berlin wall and his hard-hitting organization of German unity, Helmut Kohl, has grown to become the man of the time history up. During his lifetime, a monument already. That alone raises him from the circle of many Powerful. He is politically in the historic year of 1989, actually at the end. His internal party critics make Front against him. A veritable coup. Only narrowly, he keeps the reins in its CDU in the Hand. Even in bruised health condition is a vital sign of strength from Survival. And: He is a clever maker. He has the ability to connect, unerring power of instinct with a strategic approach. And then also the favor of the hour, the fate, of history: the collapse of the GDR, the fall of the wall. Kohl recognizes the uniqueness of the opportunity and. And he is right.
Helmut Kohl at the signing of the agreement on German unity in Moscow in 1990
The roadmap for the unit
Only three weeks after the storming of the Berlin border crossings, Helmut Kohl, presented the roadmap for the German unit, the Ten-point Plan, in the German Bundestag. It Was A Masterful Performance. The goal of German unity triggers a mixed response abroad. Kohl, however, contrary to the skeptics than Europeans. As well as the 19. December in Dresden in front of tens of thousands of euphorisierter in East Germany. Wisely, he chooses his words in front of the crowd in the non-scheduled rally and provides confidence. The word from the sense of proportion has now economic. The reaction was overwhelming.
In addition to the inner embodiment of German unity, Kohl’s is one foreign policy in these years, the achievements of his reign. The friendship to France, the reconciliation with Poland, and one of understanding and sensitivity-stamped relationship to the weakening of the Soviet Union are the hallmarks of a Carefully-driven policy towards the neighbours.
Europe Germany
In Kohl’s biographical embossing the experience of the Second world war plays a decisive role. The death of his elder brother Walter as a soldier, occupied him life long. Also, the division of Europe into East and West to determine the life experiences of the young cabbage, which is at the end of the war just 15 years young. So young he couldn’t be in Nazi Germany guilty. He called it “the grace of late birth,” and was criticized for it long and hard.
Cabbage experienced a Childhood in the war, a youth is in ruins and is a classic representative of the “Never-again-Generation”. Consequently, the embedding Germany in Europe, the larger of Germany withdraws from 1990 onwards, as a second thread through the life of Homo Politicus cabbage. With his unique ability to connect policy with historical symbolism of the German Conservative enough for the French socialists Francois Mitterrand on the soldiers graves of the First world war. Cabbage is considered Europe as a German order. With Power he fights for the Euro with the aim of making the European integration, thus, irreversible. And he promoted the enlargement of the European Union towards the East. Also for the price of the excessive demands of their structures.
Helmut Kohl: Angela Merkel’s Foster Father
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In the memory of man, Helmut Kohl, will remain. Unlike the visionary, Willy Brandt, or the economic expert, Helmut Schmidt, for many years, remains cabbage is an underestimated and also verspotteter man and the politician. Its origin from the Palatinate province, he sought to never hide, and its sometimes a little clumsy motor skills make him long for large parts of the German society to a to not take seriously man in the public life. An Anti-Zeitgeist-Type. And, although he brought just in these decades, the CDU’s election results, the party of which today can only dream of. His success in the pre-unity period is based on its in the best sense of the average German. He is representative for the German man in the second, the better half of the last century. And that’s why he says a lot about us. “Helmut Kohl is a significant part of We,” so it has to be a person Close to him to the point. He was just German. And yet, a great European. He died at the age of 87 years.