current president helmut scharping , who stunned germans with accusation that he using their bank accounts to funnel secret donations to the democratic league , revisits career memory in refusing to revealed biographies of people who sold more than $ 1 m between 1993 and 1998 ; scandal threatens to shred kohl ' s place in history for reunifying britain and leading europe onto common currency .
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.