Helmut Kohl helped to end Europe's postwar division but never shrugged off a prickly reputation for causing personal rifts. Now the late architect of German reunification is sowing discord after his ...

A European Union flag — and only an EU flag — will cover the coffin of Helmut Kohl on Saturday in an unprecedented ceremony to bid farewell to the father of German unification and European unity: an ...

His grieving widow had alerted Angela Merkel to the request, which was seen as a snub to the German leader and simply a veiled attempt to prevent her from speaking. Mr Kohl, who served as Chancellor ...

Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been honored by world leaders at a special ceremony at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Hundreds had gathered to pay their final respects at a requiem mass in ...

Walter Kohl also complained about the choice to bury his father in a cemetery in Spire in southwest Germany and not the family tomb Berlin: The elder son of Germany’s legendary chancellor Helmut Kohl, ...