Photo: Uwe Anspach/DPAThe elder son of Germany's legendary chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died last week, called on Friday the plans for his father's funeral "unworthy" of a man considered the father of German reunification, further enflaming a family feud with his stepmother. "I find the latest developments not worthy of my father, nor of Germany and Europe," said Walter Kohl, 53, who with his brother Peter are from Kohl's first marriage. In an interview on the weekly Die Zeit website, Walter Kohl criticised the lack of national funeral services, which were refused by his stepmother Maike Kohl-Richter. The funeral plans for Germany's longest serving post-war leader, in office from 1982-98, include a European ceremony in Strasbourg on July 1. Kohl's body will then be taken to the Spire cemetery and his son says he will not take part in the burial.

Source: The Local June 24, 2017 08:37 UTC