How many full terms did Chancellor Helmut Kohl serve as Chancellor of Germany, including both West Germany and the reunited Germany?

In 1994, Helmut Kohl was re-elected to his fourth and final term as Chancellor of Germany. He served in that office from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany 1982–1990 and of the reunited Germany 1990–1998).

The German chancellor is elected by the German federal parliament, the Bundestag. The office term of the Bundestag is four years. Thus, federal parliamentary elections are held every 46 to 48 months.

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (3rd of April 1930 – 16th of June 2017) was a German statesman who also served as the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. From 1969 to 1976, Kohl was minister president of the state Rhineland-Palatinate. Kohl chaired the Group of Seven in 1985 and 1992.

In 1998 he became honorary chairman of the CDU, resigning from the position in 2000.

As Chancellor Kohl was strongly committed to European integration and French–German cooperation in particular; he was also a steadfast ally of the United States and supported Reagan's more aggressive policies in order to weaken the Soviet Union. Kohl's 16-year tenure was the longest of any German Chancellor since Otto von Bismarck.

He oversaw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification, for which he is generally known as 'Chancellor of Unity'.

Kohl was described as "the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century" by U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.