Helmut Kohl
Also known as: Helmut Josef Michael Kohl · Kohl · Dr. Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998.
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Helmut Kohl: East Germany
Domestically Kohl's policies from 1990 focused on integrating former East Germany into reunified Germany, and he moved the federal capital from the "provisional capital" Bonn back to Berlin, although he never resided there because the government offices were only relocated in 1999.
Helmut Kohl: The Night the Berlin Wall Opened, 9 November 1989
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kohl affirmed that former German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line were definitively part of Poland, thereby relinquishing any claim Germany had to them in a treaty signed on 14 November 1990 in Warsaw.