former chancellor helmut schroeder , he stunned germany with admission that he used illegal bank accounting to funnel government money to christian democratic party , invokes life honor in rejecting to disclose named of anyone who gave more than $ 1 million between 1993 and 1998 ; scandal threatens to shred kohl ' s role in politics for uniting germany and taking europe toward common citizenship .
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.