Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler --
Rainer Mertel is dead, the spa director of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and witness in the inquiry Nürburgring succumbed to the effects of a heart attack, which he on the 18th December had just suffered after his testimony in the inquiry of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag in Mainz. The Board of Ministers for the spa treatment Aktiengesellschaft Bad Neuenahr was 64 years old.
The county government Ahrweiler confirmed on Tuesday a report in the Koblenz Rhein-Zeitung.
The Committee for the burst of private funding around 300 million euros expensive amusement parks in the Eifel Mertel had been questioned about his time as chief executive of the Nürburgring GmbH. He said, inter alia, to its recently released successor to the race track, Walter Kafitz, and made a tidy and healthy impression.
Immediately afterwards Mertel complained of feeling unwell. With ventricular fibrillation, he was in the Mainz University Clinic gebracht.Mertel had spent about ten years at the head of the country's largely been Nurburgring GmbH. Since the mid-90s he was a spa director of Bad Neuenahr. Mertel was considered a pioneer of innovation in the German spa.
