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The financial crisis pushed under a train German billionaire Adolf Merkle

In Germany, committed suicide, one of the richest people in Europe, billionaire Adolf Merkle (Adolf Merckle). To bring scores of lives Merkle decided, losing hundreds of millions of euros as a result of the global financial crisis.

only losses on transactions in the shares of Volkswagen Group had Merkle loss of 400 million euros ($539 million).

reported on Tuesday to journalists late family, 74-year-old industrialist and financier brought scores of lives, on Monday evening.

Representatives prosecutors city of Ulm, near where he lived Merkle, said that the businessman ran for the train. Based on the evidence, investigators believe that at the time of the fatal decision businessman was alone, and there is no reason to suspect a violent death, handed over to Russian media.

“The desperate situation of his company, due to the financial crisis, the uncertain situation of recent a few weeks and the sense of powerlessness that something will break this pylkogo businessman, a devoted family business, and he committed suicide “, – stated in a press statement distributed by his family late.

Adolf Merkle was 94 — place in the list of the richest people in the world, compiled by the authoritative Forbes magazine in 2008. Among the companies that he controlled – “HaydelbergTsement, the largest German manufacturer of the stroymateriala with a turnover of 11 billion euros, the biggest in Germany, as well as the second largest in Europe, the company wholesale trade of drugs Phoenix farmahandel” with a turnover of 21 6 billion euros, the company Ratiofarm “with a turnover of 1.8 billion euros, a producer of generic drugs – relatively cheap analogue drugs largest farmkompany.