List of honors and awards received by Helmut Kohl
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The following is a list of accolades and honors conferred upon the sixth chancellor of the
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Helmut Kohl Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (; 3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longes ...
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Honorary degrees and citizenships

– Given on 9 November 1992, the third anniversary of the
fall of the Berlin Wall The fall of the Berlin Wall (german: Mauerfall) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain and one of the series of eve ...
to Kohl, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
– Received on 11 December 1998 at the
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. The only other honorary citizenship of Europe was given to Jean Monnet in 1976.


Accolades


Namesakes

* In 1995, the Institute of European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, founded in 1991, was renamed ''Helmut Kohl Institute'' in his honor. * Two streets in
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bear his name, the ''Doktor-Helmut-Kohl-Straße'' in
Loddin Loddin is a municipality on Usedom Island, in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. A small coastal bathing resort, Loddin lies on an isthmus on the island of Usedom on the Baltic Sea. It is located within the U ...
on
Usedom Usedom (german: Usedom , pl, Uznam ) is a Baltic Sea island in Pomerania, divided between Germany and Poland. It is the second largest Pomeranian island after Rügen, and the most populous island in the Baltic Sea. It is north of the Szczecin ...
and the ''Helmut-Kohl-Weg'' between the German city of Eppenbrunn and the French town of
Roppeviller Roppeviller (, Lorraine Franconian: ''Roppwiller'') is a commune in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France. The village belongs to the Pays de Bitche and to the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park. ...
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References

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