Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl died at his home in Ludwigshafen in the former West Germany. He was 87 years old.

Kohl was renowned for his role in reunifying Germany after the opening of the Berllin Wall and for recording the longest tenure of any Democratically-elected chancellor in German history.

Kohl served for 16 years, from 1982-1998, and oversaw the end of the Cold War. Kohl also led the unification of communist East Germany with the West in 1990.

