Besides having once met Artur Axmann as a teenager, why is Helmut Kohl a notable personality?

Player #1154062, Many people as he was a very well-known Chancellor.

Never knew that about Axmann

Helmut Kohl I had actually at least heard of, but I had zero idea who Artur Axmann was until this very minute

JezzerLX, um..Angela Merkel is not a man. Perhaps you meant half the chancellor.