GermanyHelmut Kohl was chancellor of West Germany and then reunified Germany from 1982 to 1998, leading the Christian Democratic Union. He oversaw German reunification in 1990 and pushed European integration, including the creation of the euro.
In the 12 Axes register, Helmut Kohl leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Internationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Helmut Kohl sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Federal
Chancellor of a federal Germany, 1982 to 1998
Representative Democracy
Parliamentary coalition governments with the FDP
Centrist
Constitutional democracy with civil liberties
Internationalism
Championed European integration and the euro
Neutral
Kept NATO membership; limited foreign deployments
Centrist
Took in ethnic German resettlers; 1993 asylum compromise
Mixed Economic
Social market economy with some deregulation
Markets
Market-oriented reforms of the Wende years
Globalist
Supported EU single market and free trade
Spiritual
CDU leader; Christian democratic outlook
Conservative
Centre-right conservative on family and social issues
Neutral
Backed nuclear power and research funding
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Federal – Unitary
On Federal – Unitary, Helmut Kohl is at Federal 68%. The register median is Unitary 68%.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Helmut Kohl is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.hdg.de
Portrait: Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
