On June 16, 2017, former German Prime Minister Helmut Kohl died at the age of 87. German media quoted Col¡¯s lawyer as saying that Kohl died in his hometown in the southwestern German city of Ludwigshafen that morning. Kohl was born on April 16, 1930, joined the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1947, served as Chairman of the Federation from 1973 to 1998, served as Prime Minister of the German Federation from October 1982 to October 1998. Kohl was the first German Prime Minister since the reunification of the two Germany. United Nations Secretary General Guterres issued a statement on April 16, expressing his profound sadness at the death of Kohl. He stated that Kohl was Germany¡¯s longest prime minister in office from October 1982 to October 1998, and that he helped Germany¡¯s historic role in the economic collapse of the