Helmut Kohl
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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998. He was leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998 and oversaw the end of the Co
Kohl in 1996
Kohl as the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate state party chairman
Kohl in 1969
Kohl at the CDU national party convention in Hamburg, 1973
Helmut Schmidt
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Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was the longest lived
Helmut Kohl
…as a more conservative figure. In the 1976 and 1980 federal elections, his party performed well, but the social-liberal government of social democrat Helmut Schmidt was able to remain in power. After Schmidt had lost the support of the liberal FDP in 1982, Kohl was elected Chancellor through a constructive vote of…
Schmidt in 1977
Schmidt's official Bundestag portrait, 1953
Schmidt, Erich Honecker, Gerald Ford and Bruno Kreisky in 1975 in Helsinki
U.S. president Jimmy Carter and Schmidt in July 1977