Peter Kohl (entrepreneur)

Peter Kohl (born August 28, 1965 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German author and entrepreneur . He is one of the two sons of Hannelore and former Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the younger brother of Walter Kohl .

Life

He attended a Waldorf school in Mannheim and graduated from high school in May 1985 at a Mannheim grammar school. Then he was a contract soldier in the German Armed Forces for two years . From autumn 1987 he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as at the Universities of Vienna and Cambridge . In 1998 he founded K&L Partners Limited together with Matthias Ruhland in London . After many years in London , he now works as an independent entrepreneur near Zurich .

Since 2001 he has been married to the Turkish banker Elif Sözen, whom he met during his studies in the USA in Boston and with whom he has a daughter (* 2002). In the year his daughter was born, he and the journalist Dona Kujacinski published a widely received biography at Droemer Knaur about his mother Hannelore Kohl, who had committed suicide the year before .

Publications

Peter Kohl, Dona Kujacinski: Hannelore Kohl. Droemer, Munich 2002; updated new edition: Knaur, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-78557-7 .

Web links

Short biography and reviews of works by Peter Kohl at perlentaucher.de
Peter Kohl memories of his father Helmut Kohl. In: Zeitmagazin No. 24/2018 - June 6, 2018

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Büscher: "I will never understand it" . In: The world . February 25, 2002 ( welt.de [accessed April 26, 2020]).
↑ Christoph Pauly: Der Kontaktmann, in: Der Spiegel No. 19, May 7, 2001, p. 94.
↑ Claudia Steiner: Christian-Islamic fusion: Kohl son marries Turkish entrepreneur's daughter In: Der Spiegel , May 26, 2001, accessed on June 1, 2014. Dilek Güngör: Peter Kohl and Elif Sözen are allowed to marry - the ex-chancellor finally gave his Blessings . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 20, 2000.

↑ Granddaughter's name is Leyla - "Hürriyet": Helmut Kohl is grandfather . In: Rheinische Post , March 12, 2002

personal data
SURNAME	Kohl, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigshafen am Rhein

[1] Wolfgang Büscher: "I will never understand it" . In: The world . February 25, 2002 ( welt.de [accessed April 26, 2020]).

[2] Christoph Pauly: Der Kontaktmann, in: Der Spiegel No. 19, May 7, 2001, p. 94.

[3] Claudia Steiner: Christian-Islamic fusion: Kohl son marries Turkish entrepreneur's daughter In: Der Spiegel , May 26, 2001, accessed on June 1, 2014. Dilek Güngör: Peter Kohl and Elif Sözen are allowed to marry - the ex-chancellor finally gave his Blessings . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 20, 2000.

[4] Granddaughter's name is Leyla - "Hürriyet": Helmut Kohl is grandfather . In: Rheinische Post , March 12, 2002