Bonn - bang for the Hannelore Kohl Foundation:
Helmut Kohl (79, CDU) wants to do with the CNS Foundation, his late wife have nothing more to. He resigned as honorary chairman.
Kohl also urged the Foundation in writing to remove the name of his wife. Justification: During his illness last year, there was a "hostile takeover" of the Foundation by individuals, "which I am sometimes not even known, and bore no relation to my late wife."
Kohl, in his letter, there is the Express: "In the current structure, I see the will of my late wife for the future no longer assured."
Background is a dispute over the composition of the Board of Trustees. Kohl had proposed to "deserving donor and longtime companion of the family", but can not enforce. Kohl: "That's why for me was only the consequence of withdrawing me personally from the foundation, they no longer support the future and point out that the Foundation is represented in the current constitution, not the interests of my late wife Hannelore."
The Foundation responded quickly: noon yesterday removed the photo from the website of Helmut Kohl, the name was not changed. Board member Klaus Mayer emphasized that the legacy of Mrs. Kohl had "always been followed closely." We must and will reject the request to abandon the name.
The foundation "ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation was created in 1983 by the wife of the then Chancellor to life (see box ten). President is the Dusseldorf Charity-Lady Ute-Henriette Ohoven. She regretted "the resignation of former Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl extraordinary", but stressed: "It is our duty to maintain the legacy of Hannelore Kohl to."
It is precisely this legacy, however, seem to see Kohl and others in danger. "Mrs. Kohl had always wanted as much money reach the people and institutions. She wanted to make big impact with little money, "said board member CNS Coordt of men stone. Kohl had wanted to significantly streamline the organization of the Foundation.
"The board should be abolished, the Board will be streamlined and powerful," says the entrepreneur. "A similar statutes but has been rejected because of the changed conditions in the majority of trustees," Mann says Stein, who, "if you do not even want to respond calmly," to withdraw also from the Foundation.
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