- Hannelore Kohl
Hannelore Kohl (
March 7 ,1933 –July 5 ,2001 ) was the wife of former German Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl. She met him for the first time at a prom inLudwigshafen ,Germany , when she was 15 years old.She was born in
Berlin and was christened Eleonore Johanna Renner. Later, she chose the composition "Hannelore" to be used as her first name. In the years of her husband's chancellorship, she founded the Hannelore Kohl Stiftung and the Kuratorium ZNS.Kohl is known to have been raped by Soviet soldiers towards the end of the
Second World War . According to "The Observer " [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jun/23/germany.kateconnolly "German rape victims find a voice at last"] ,June 23 ,2002 ] she was raped along with her mother at the age of 12 as they failed to escape on a train bound for Dresden.On July 5, 2001, Kohl was found dead at age 68 in her
Ludwigshafen home. She had apparently committedsuicide with an overdose of sleeping pills, after years of suffering from what had claimed to be a very rare and painfulphoto allergy induced by an earlierpenicillin treatment that had forced her to avoid practically all sunlight for years.However, journalist
Andrew Gimson , writing in "The Spectator " [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200107/ai_n8979013 "Married to a monster"] ,Findarticles.com ,July 28 ,2001 ] , cast doubt upon the official version of events. Similar questions were also raised by the German newsmagazine, "Stern" and theBBC . [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1436219.stm "German media split by suicide"] ,BBC ,July 12 , 2001]Kohl is known for her collection of German-style cooking recipes published as "Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder" ("Culinary Journey through German Regions") which was published in 1996.
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NAME=Kohl, Hannelore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Renner, Eleonore Johanna
SHORT DESCRIPTION=wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
DATE OF BIRTH=March 7 ,1933
PLACE OF BIRTH=Berlin
DATE OF DEATH=July 5 ,2001 (aged 68)
PLACE OF DEATH=Ludwigshafen
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