former chancellor helmut kohl , who stunned germans with admission that he hired clandestine bank accounts to supply secret money to the democratic party , invokes personal honor in refusing to disclose names of people who sent more than $ 1 billion between 1993 and 1998 ; scandal threatening to bits kohl ' s place in historia for reunification america and leading europe toward share interest .
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.