By Sarah Marsh
FRANKFURT, Jan 6 (Reuters) - In killing himself German billionaire Adolf Merckle has become the latest casualty of the global financial crisis, his family saying on Tuesday he was broken by the struggle to salvage their business empire.
Merckle, who was the world's 94th-richest person in 2008
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