Maike Kohl-Richter

Maike Kohl-Richter 2009

Maike Kohl-Richter (née Richter ; born April 1964 in Siegen ) is a German economist . She is the widow of the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , with whom she was married from 2008 until his death in 2017.

Life

Maike Richter grew up as the second of four children of an employee of the power company RWE and an author in Oberheuslingen in Siegerland . As a student, she became a board member of the local district association of the CDU youth organization Junge Union . After graduating from the Protestant grammar school in Siegen-Weidenau , she studied economics in Munich . She completed her studies in 1996 with a doctorate .

After her studies in Munich and a first position at the Ifo Institute there , she began her career in 1994 in the Federal Chancellery in Bonn . From 1994 to 1998 Richter was a civil servant in the economic department of the Chancellery under Helmut Kohl. After Gerhard Schröder's election victory in 1998, she switched to the financial expert of the Union parliamentary group, Friedrich Merz . After the latter, like other CDU members, demanded that the party donation affair be fully investigated , they no longer accompanied Merz's further political rise. After working as a journalist for the newspaper Wirtschaftswoche , she was head of the “Regional Economic Policy, Urban Development and Spatial Planning” department in the Federal Ministry of Economics ; Kohl-Richter is now on leave there. She is a member of the CDU .

Relationship with Helmut Kohl

Maike Richter said she had been in a steady relationship with Helmut Kohl since 2005. In 2007 Richter and Kohl first appeared in public. On May 8, 2008, she married him in the chapel of a rehabilitation clinic in Heidelberg with her closest friends, three months after Kohl's severe fall. The witnesses were the media entrepreneur Leo Kirch and the Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann . His sons Walter and Peter were not invited to the wedding; Walter Kohl made this known in his first public interview in August 2008 and expressed surprise about it.

Helmut Kohl's biographer Heribert Schwan describes Kohl-Richter as "more than conservative, almost German national" minded . You strive for the sovereignty of interpretation over Kohl's life and have insisted on verifiably false statements. In the production of a television docudrama by the director and screenwriter Thomas Schadt , which was based on a thirty-hour interview with Kohl in 2006, Kohl-Richter did not approve two thirds of the interview script in 2009; more than half of the remaining third reserved a decision and one Wish list submitted for the dramaturgy. According to Schwan, Kohl had an affair with her during his first marriage to Hannelore Kohl .

In 2012, Jochen Arntz wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that Maike Kohl-Richter was clearly fixated on the idea of ​​“building a wall” for Kohl (“she maintains, protects and controls him”); it keeps former friends and confidants at a distance. This also resulted in the estrangement of Kohl's two sons from their father. Even his long-time driver Eckhard "Ecki" Seeber and the photographer Konrad R. Müller had no more contact with Kohl as a result of Richter's negative attitude.

Shortly before his death, Helmut Kohl had received compensation of one million euros from the Cologne Regional Court because the journalist Heribert Schwan had published unauthorized quotations in the book "Legacy: The Kohl Protocols". After Kohl died, Maike Kohl-Richter tried to get the compensation paid out to herself. However, the Cologne Higher Regional Court dismissed her action because a claim to monetary compensation is not inheritable.

Publications

• The development of business-oriented municipal infrastructure in the process of transformation from the system of central planned economy to the decentralized and market-based system. An analysis of the framework conditions and problems using the example of the GDR . Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Dissertation University of Kassel, 1996.
• The efficiency of the financial policy support measures in the new federal states. Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-88512-210-3 .
• Production costs and follow-up charges for municipal investments. Ifo Institute for Economic Research, 1992.

Web links

Commons : Maike Kohl-Richter  - Collection of Images

• Maria Wiesner: The woman at Kohl's side. In: faz.net . 17th June 2017

Footnotes

1. ↑ Maike Kohl-Richter - information and background. The world.
2. ↑ We, the Kohls - the first and last stern interview with former Chancellor Der Stern.
3. ↑ Ulrike Posche: The engagement in the Palatinate. In: stern.de . May 3, 2008, accessed June 8, 2012 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Wulf Schmiese: Your enthusiasm for cabbage was noticed. In: faz.net . April 15, 2008, accessed June 8, 2012 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Heribert Schwan , Tilman Jens : Legacy. The cabbage logs . 2nd Edition. Heyne, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-20077-7 , pp. 50-57 .
6. ↑ Helmut Kohl has a new girlfriend . In: stern.de . April 23, 2005 ( stern.de [accessed February 10, 2018]).
7. ↑ Helmut Kohl gets married in the clinic. In: T-online.de . May 13, 2008, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Kohl son "alienated". In: Bunte.de. August 6, 2008.
9. ↑ Hans Peter Schütz: Death did not come overnight. In: stern.de. June 19, 2011, accessed June 8, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Torsten Krauel: Is former Chancellor Kohl being controlled by his wife? In: Welt Online. March 1, 2013, accessed October 8, 2014 . 
11. ↑ Jochen Arntz: My Chancellor . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 21, 2012, p. 3 ( bdzv.de [accessed on June 23, 2017]). My Chancellor ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns: Eckhard Seeber: "Ecki, come on immediately!" In: Zeit Online . June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 23, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Production costs and consequential charges of municipal investments on sowiport.gesis.org