former premier helmut chancellor , with stunned us with revelation that he used illegal bank accounts to convey secret money to social democrat party , invokes personal honor in refusing to disclose names of people who gave more than $ 1 hundred between 1993 and 1998 ; scandal threatens to shred kohl ' s place in history for reunifying europe and leading europe for universal currency .
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.