Her father Wilhelm Renner who joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1933, became an engineer, business executive, Wehrwirtschaftsführer at Hugo Schneider AG and also headed the employment office that developed the anti-tank weapon Panzerfaust.
[2][3] In addition to psychological trauma, the attacks left her with a fractured vertebra and back pain for the rest of her life.
She later utilized her fluency in English and French in personal diplomacy alongside her husband, who spoke no foreign languages.
Hannelore's biographer, Heribert Schwan [de], cited "medical experts to support his theory that the bizarre light allergy of her later years may have been a psychosomatic reaction to the suppressed traumas of the war.
Kohl's collection of German-style cooking recipes, Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder (Culinary Journey through German Regions), was published in 1996.