Background
She was born in Berlin and was christened Johanna Klara Eleonore Renner. Her father was Wilhelm Renner, who headed the employment office at Hugo Schneider AG that developed the successful one-man anti-tank weapon, the Panzerfaust.
She was born in Berlin and was christened Johanna Klara Eleonore Renner. Her father was Wilhelm Renner, who headed the employment office at Hugo Schneider AG that developed the successful one-man anti-tank weapon, the Panzerfaust.
Later, she chose the portmanteau "Hannelore" to be used as her first name.
She met him for the first time at a prom in Ludwigshafen, Germany, when she was 15 years old. In the days following Germany"s defeat in World World War II, at the age of 12, Hannelore Kohl was raped by Red Army soldiers and subsequently “thrown out of a window like a sack of potatoes by the Russians.” In addition to the obvious psychological impact, the attacks left her with a fractured vertebra and back pain for the rest of her life. On 5 July 2001, Hannelore was found dead at age 68 in her Ludwigshafen home.
She had apparently committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills, after years of suffering from what she had claimed to be a very rare and painful photo allergy induced by an earlier penicillin treatment that had forced her to avoid practically all sunlight for years.
In 2005, the Kuratorium ZNS was renamed ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Stiftung in her honor. However, journalist Andrew Gimson, writing in The Spectator, cast doubt upon the official version of events.
Similar questions were also raised by the German newsmagazine Stern and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Kohl"s collection of German-style cooking recipes, Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder (Culinary Journey through German Regions), was published in 1996.