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Berlin (dpa) - Almost four years after the death of the former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the Bundestag initiated the establishment of a foundation for the CDU politician.
This is intended to commemorate the life and work of the conservative who was Federal Chancellor from 1982 to 1998.
At the first reading of the draft law on Thursday, there was a lot of cross-party approval for the project, the models of which are the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation or the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation.
«Helmut Kohl had many facets - as a person, as a politician.
You should be remembered, "said the deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Gitta Connemann.
"There were also breaks, as we all know."
The view of the Chancellor today is primarily shaped by German unity, said the CDU politician.
But he also created a Federal Environment Ministry and a Ministry for Women for the first time.
"Regardless of whether you like Helmut Kohl or not, and whether you like everything about him or just parts of his political work - it should be completely undisputed: Helmut Kohl was a Chancellor who shaped the Federal Republic," said the SPD MP Katrin Budde.
Your group will of course support the project.
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Simone Barrientos from the Left also agreed to this, but admitted that her party had a “critical view of the work of Helmut Kohl”.
She expressed the hope that it would finally be possible to “free the files that are still stored in the basement of Helmut Kohl's own home in Oggersheim because Maike Kohl-Richter refuses to hand them over, and to bring them where they belong, namely in the Federal Archives ».
For the Greens, Erhard Grundl described Kohl's legacy as "highly ambivalent".
He emphasized: "The so-called spiritual and moral turnaround that Helmut Kohl announced with pathos at the beginning of his term as Federal Chancellor, ended up in his CDU of black suitcases, illegal donations, and dubious machinations."
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