Maike Kohl-Richter
- January 8, 2024
- Economist
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Maike Kohl-Richter Biography
| Name | Maike Kohl-Richter |
| Birthday | Apr 1 |
| Birth Year | 1964 |
| Place Of Birth | Siegen |
| Birth Country | Germany |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Parents | Wolfgang Richter, Evelyn Richter |
| Spouse | Helmut Kohl |
Maike Kohl-Richter is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on April 1, 1964 in Siegen, Germany. Richter was born April 1964 in a village near Freudenberg in Siegerland, to Evelyn and Wolfgang Richter. She was the third child of four children, and grew up in Oberheuslingen. Her father was an engineer at RWE in Siegen. Her mother was a reporter at the local newspaper “Siegener Zeitung”. In a biographical novel, her mother described her daughter as “a child face out of a children’s book, joyful, unrestrained, and completely without problems”.
As an economy ministry aide, she was assigned to Bonn’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as the head of the department for regional economic and urban development. She spent 2004 on vacation in Sri Lanka at a resort located on the coast. After she married Helmut Kohl, she quit her job in 2008.
In 2011, Peter Kohl had managed to visit his father together with his daughter, Leyla Kohl for the last time; his father had been happy to see them, but after a while he let them know that it would be better if they left before Richter found out, otherwise there would be “great troubles”. Peter Kohl speculated that his father was not “able or allowed” to take part in the 10th anniversary commemoration event for Hannelore’s death.
Kohl became estranged from his two sons and his grandchildren. In 2013, his sons said his new wife kept their father “like a prisoner” and that she prevented them from seeing him for the prior six years. Kohl’s sons later explained that it was unclear whether letters purportedly from their father were actually written by him or Richter, they were not allowed to speak with their father on the telephone and that they were threatened by Richter with police and imprisonment if they tried to visit their parents’ house, their own childhood home. They noted that Richter had appropriated their late mother’s jewellery, their family heirlooms, and ordered their mother’s pictures to be removed from the Kohl family home; “it seemed to be the case that she tried to erase all traces or memories of Hannelore Kohl, her children and grandchildren,” Peter Kohl wrote. In 2012, Jochen Arntz criticized Kohl- Richter in the Süddeutsche Zeitung for building a “wall” around Helmut Kohl and controlling him; as a result Kohl had also become estranged from many former friends whom she disliked.
Richter was a student at Gymnasium, a Protestant high school. She joined the Junge Union youth wing of the CDU while still in school. Dirk Metz, the district chairman, noticed her: “She was perky, with short hair – a stunner!” She was elected to the committee of the district executive Siegen–Wittgenstein. She graduated from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1996 with a doctorate of economics. Friends recall that she wanted to be a minimum state secretary (“mindestens Staatssekretarin”), as her friends remember. Her older sister and brother were both doctors.
Maike Kohl-Richter Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Economist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Maike Kohl-Richter is one of the richest Economist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maike Kohl-Richter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Maike Kohl-Richter was born April 1964 in Siegen. She is the second wife to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Her right-wing antiimmigrant views, support for Viktor Orban and her public feuding with Kohl’s grandchildren and children make her controversial in Germany. She was accused of taking Kohl’s legacy over and has been “criticised by Mr Kohl’s own children for allegedly idolizing the former chancellor” and being “obsessed” with him. After Kohl’s death, she was criticised by German media, public figures, and the Kohl family.
Richter was a junior speechwriter for the German Chancellery from 1994 to 1998 when Helmut Kohl ruled. After Helmut Kohl lost the election, Richter left and briefly served as an advisor to Friedrich Merz (member of the Bundestag) for the CDU. She was then a Wirtschaftswoche business journalist for one year.
Per Richter, Helmut Kohl had started introducing her as his “new life-partner” in 2005. They married on 8 May 2008, seven years after the suicide of Kohl’s widely respected first wife Hannelore Kohl. At the time Richter was 44 years old and Helmut Kohl, then aged 78, was hospitalized in “critical condition” with serious head trauma, and was barely able to speak. For the duration of their marriage, Helmut Kohl was impaired by brain damage, had difficulty speaking and was wheelchair-bound.
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Maike Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Maike Kohl-Richter celebrates birthday on April 1 of every year.