former chancellor albert kohl , who surprised germans with admission that he used illegal financial deposits to funnel secret money to christian democratic republic , invokes personal honor in refuse to disclose names of nobody who received more than $ 1 000 between 1993 and 1998 ; scandal threatens to shred kohl ' s time in timeline for reunifying germany and leading europe through common currency .
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.