Four and a half months ago, the Bundestag launched a Helmut Kohl Foundation. Kohl’s widow, however, was against the project from the start. Now the conflict will probably preoccupy the courts.
The Helmut Kohl Foundation approved by the Bundestag has officially started its work. Despite the ongoing resistance from Kohl’s widow Maike Kohl-Richter, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees met for its constituent meeting on Tuesday in Berlin.
The committee, which was received in the Chancellery by host Angela Merkel (CDU), includes the former Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bernhard Vogel (CDU), the former Federal Minister of Health Gerda Hasselfeldt (CSU) and the former CDU / CSU parliamentary group leader Volker Kauder, who was elected chairman of the board of trustees.
The widow of the former chancellor, who was against the project from the start, has, however, set up her own Helmut Kohl Foundation and also wants to sue the Federal Foundation. Through her lawyers, she announced on Tuesday that she would take legal action against the state foundation in order to ensure “a historiography that is committed to truthfulness”. The news portal “ThePioneer” and the daily newspaper “Rheinpfalz” had previously reported on the lawsuit and the establishment of the foundation.
Kohl, who died four years ago, was Federal Chancellor from 1982 to 1998. He is known as the “Chancellor of Unity”. However, his name also stands for the CDU donation affair that was uncovered in 1999. It is precisely at this point that Kohl-Richter’s criticism begins. She criticizes the fact that the affair at the time was not dealt with in public, but rather passed on to the foundation as a “cause of Kohl”.
Your private foundation, which is based in Kohl’s former place of residence Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim, should, according to the statutes, process his work “based on sources and free of prejudice”. “In this way, the foundation resists any (zeitgeist) temptation to capture him and make statements on his behalf, as Dr. Helmut Kohl would have acted in this or that situation. “
At the beginning of May the Bundestag decided on a state Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation. According to the law, its purpose should be to preserve the memory of Kohl’s political work and thus to make a contribution to the understanding of contemporary history. She is also responsible for building a publicly accessible memorial in Berlin.
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