Side Merkel: Germany and Kohl

side merkel: Friday morning in bed at his home in Ludwigshafen, in western Germany, with his second wife, Maike Kohl-Richter, at his side, according to The Japan Times. Merkel, Germany's incumbent chancellor who grew up in communist East Germany before being appointed by Kohl to her first ministerial post, said he changed my own life path decisively by reuniting Germany. The mass-selling newspaper Bild reported that Kohl died at 9.15 a.m. When a new spirit began to stir in eastern Europe in the 1980s, when, starting in Poland freedom was seized, when brave people in Leipzig, East Berlin and elsewhere in East Germany began a peaceful revolution, then Helmut Kohl was the right man at the right time, said Merkel, who was wearing black. Kohl, who was chancellor between 1982 and 1998, was the country's longest-serving leader. He stood fast to the dream and aim of a united Germany even as others hesitated, she said in a televised statement from Rome. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.