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Helmut Kohl, who served as German chancellor from 1982 to 1998, has died at the age of 87. Helmut Kohl, who served as German chancellor from 1982 to 1998, and presided over the end of the Cold War, has died at the age of 87.
The so-called "father of reunification" was modern Germany's longest serving chancellor, coinciding with the peaceful end of the Cold War.    The so-called "father of reunification" was modern Germany's longest serving chancellor, coinciding with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall that separated the communist East from the capitalist West.  
US president George Bush Senior once described him as the most important European leader of the late 20th century. US president George Bush Senior once described him as the most important European leader of the late 20th century. 
Mr Kohl was chancellor of then West Germany between 1982 and 1990, and the reunified Germany between 1990 and 1998. A politician for most of his adult life, Mr Kohl was chancellor of then West Germany between 1982 and 1990, and the reunified Germany between 1990 and 1998.
As leader of the Christian Democratic Union party, his 16 year tenure was the longest of any German Chancellor since Otto von Bismarck. As leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union party, his 16 year tenure was the longest of any German Chancellor since Otto von Bismarck.
More follows… "We are in sorrow," the party said, announcing his death on Twitter.
He died in Ludwigshafen, Germany, the Rhine port city where he was born.