former chancellor helmut cdu , who stunned germans with admission that he used illegal bank accounts to deliver secret material to christian democratic alliance , invokes personal honour in refusing to expose names of people he offered more than $ 1 meter between 1993 and 1998 ; scandal threatens to shred chancellor ' s name in reality for reunifying germany and leading society toward common currency .
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.