Chancellor of Germany | |
Predecessor | Rainer Barzel |
Successor | Edmund Stoiber |
Political Party | Christian-Democratic CDU/CSU |
Helmut Kohl was the first democratically elected Chancellor of Germany since the beginning of the Third Reich. Kohl, a member of the Christian Democratic CDU/CSU, became Chancellor in 1987.
In 1997 he announced that he would not run for a next Chancellorship in 1998. He was succeeded by Edmund Stoiber, also from the CDU/CSU.
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