Germany mourns Hannelore Kohl, pictures of Kohl and coffin

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(6 Jul 2001)
1. Long shot road
2. Exterior Kohl's house
3. Cutaway camera man
4. Kohl walking around then back into his house
5. Mourners walking down road with flowers
6. Police take flowers
7. Police officer taking flowers and placing them in front of the house
8. Hearse arriving at the house
9. Stretcher being taken into the house
10. Mourner bringing flowers
11.Police woman taking flowers to house
12. Hearse backing into the drive way
13. Cutaway camera man
14. Body being stretchered into the hearse
15. Hearse driving away
16. Cutaway press
STORYLINE:
Germans brought flowers to Helmut Kohl's home Friday in memory of the former Chancellor's wife,
Hannelore Kohl, 68 killed herself because of an allergy to light that had confined her to darkness for more than a year.
As a memorial service for the former first lady was scheduled at an ancient cathedral, some commentators dropped critical hints that she also suffered from loneliness.
She was found dead Thursday at the family house in the western city of Ludwigshafen.
Kohl's office said she committed suicide out of despair at her ailment.
Kohl, 71, was inside the bungalow-style house Friday with the couple's two sons, stepping out briefly as his wife's casket was put in a hearse.
A number of residents handed flowers to police sealing off the street, who took them to the house.
A service was scheduled for Wednesday in the medieval cathedral at Speyer, an old imperial city on the Rhine River in Kohl's home state, his office manager Juliane Weber said.
Kohl's wife stood firmly by his side during a 41-year marriage that saw the conservative politician govern Germany for 16 years.
She had suffered for years from a rare, incurable allergy that worsened, meaning she spent days inside her shuttered house and went out only after dark for the last 15 months.
Kohl's office said she ended her life because of "the hopelessness of her health situation," leaving farewell letters for her husband and their two sons.
Authorities have refused to disclose her method of suicide, though newspapers reported it was a pill overdose.
Newspapers said Mrs. Kohl, trained as an interpreter of English and French, kept her own talents and vivaciousness in check as she assumed the support role of a politician's wife whose husband was often absent.
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