16 June 2017•Update: 17 June 2017
BERLIN
Helmut Kohl, Germany's longest serving post-war chancellor and the architect of German reunification, passed away Friday in Berlin.
He was 87.
The ruling Christian Democratic Union, which Kohl led for a quarter century, announced Kohl’s death via Twitter with #RIP, #HelmutKohl, saying only "We mourn".
According to German daily Bild, Kohl died during in the morning at his home.
Kohl led Germany for 16 years, from 1982 to 1998, and steered his country through the 1990 reunification of East and West Germany.
He was also responsible for the creation of the single-currency Eurozone.
Kohl, who ruled the centre-right Christian Democrats, was the architect of reunification of East and West Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
*Reporting by Erbil Basay; Writing by Cansu Dikme
