former chancellor helmut kohl , having stunned germans with denial that he used illegal deposit account to funnel secret cash to christian civic coalition , alludes personal credit in refusing to disclose names of somebody whoever offered more than $ 1 million between 1993 and 1998 ; scandal threatens to discarding kohl ' s spot in history for reunifying europe and leading europe forward foreign currency .
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.