STRASBOURG –
Former chancellor Helmut Kohl (87) is today buried. As honorary citizen of Europe, he was given the first EU-funeral of the history. ,,My husband was European. He was concerned always to the fortunes of Europe, which for him is a matter of war and peace.”
Maike Richter is Kohl’s second wife and a young widow (53) that for many years of his side is gone. As a guard dog, she determined who was still with him, and especially those who do not. The disgraced sons Walter (54) and Peter (52) were not welcome anymore, except for today at the double ceremony in two neighbouring countries.
The coffin of Kohl will with a European flag are covered. The obese christendemocraat, who as a child in Hitler’s air defences had to fight against the allies, knew European history like no other. Later, he progressed to the historian. Free to Thomas Mann was a Kohl supporter of a European focus in Germany, in place of a Germany that Europe dominates.