Maike Kohl-Richter (56), the widow of Helmut Kohl (1930-2017), is committed to ensuring that the former chancellor's residence and the adjacent "special guard" of the police at Marbacher Strasse 11 in Ludwigshafen are listed. According to a report by "Der Tagesspiegel", the responsible monument authority in Rhineland-Palatinate has now rejected a corresponding application from Kohl-Richter.
From the files of the Federal Chancellery, the reason given for this decision is "that the private residence of the former Chancellor and the police station on the neighboring property have no monumental value due to the simple architectural design and the changes in the existing buildings after interventions". This conclusion was reached "after thorough research" and "with a comparative view of the surviving private dwellings of other former chancellors and federal presidents".
The guard should have been demolished two years ago before this project was "postponed by the owner's request".