Adolf Merckle 的儿子在近日的一份声明中说：“Merckle家族已经拿出最重要的私人财产部分来做抵押担保。在现在这个困难时期，我们正与银行一起着手对现在的金融形势寻找一个解决办法。”
一份由30家银行达成的推迟偿还贷款的协议将在近日完成。
Merckle的VEM投资公司拥有非专利药品生产商Ratiopharm和水泥制造商海德堡水泥的股权。对于他试图确保银行贷款的行动，银行给他两个星期的延缓偿付期来彻底改善其财政状况。
两位知情人士近日告诉记者，Merckle在2007年被福布斯评为世界上最富有的50个人之一。作为获得延缓偿付期的前提条件，Merckle已承诺出售至少一部分Ratiopharm作为抵押。
银行业人士说，在购买大众汽车公司股票及其他交易上Merckle损失了4亿欧元，这迫使他急于筹集流动资金。
附英文：
HeidelbergCement's shareholder, Merckle, offers private wealth to secure bank loans
(FRANKFURT, Germany) -- Billionaire German industrialist Adolf Merckle has offered to put up some of his private wealth as collateral for bank loans he needs to nail down by Tuesday night to escape a liquidity squeeze.
'The Merckle family has offered significant assets from its private wealth as security,' his son Ludwig said in a statement late on Monday. 'We are still prepared to work out a solution for this financial situation together with banks in these difficult times.'
The agreement by about 30 banks to postpone loan payments ends at midnight (2300 GMT) on Tuesday.
Merckle's VEM investment vehicle, which owns generic drug maker Ratiopharm and a stake in cement maker HeidelbergCement , said on Nov. 21 its moratorium gave it two weeks to overhaul its finances as it tries to secure bridge loans.
Two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Nov. 24 that Merckle, who in 2007 was ranked by Forbes as one of the world's 50 richest people, had pledged to sell at least part of Ratiopharm as a precondition for the moratorium.
Banking sources say Merckle lost 400 million euros ($504.3 million) with dud bets on carmaker Volkswagen shares and other trades, forcing him to seek to raise liquidity.
'The Merckle family has offered significant assets from its private wealth as security,' his son Ludwig said in a statement late on Monday. 'We are still prepared to work out a solution for this financial situation together with banks in these difficult times.'
The agreement by about 30 banks to postpone loan payments ends at midnight (2300 GMT) on Tuesday.
Merckle's VEM investment vehicle, which owns generic drug maker Ratiopharm and a stake in cement maker HeidelbergCement , said on Nov. 21 its moratorium gave it two weeks to overhaul its finances as it tries to secure bridge loans.
Two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Nov. 24 that Merckle, who in 2007 was ranked by Forbes as one of the world's 50 richest people, had pledged to sell at least part of Ratiopharm as a precondition for the moratorium.
Banking sources say Merckle lost 400 million euros ($504.3 million) with dud bets on carmaker Volkswagen shares and other trades, forcing him to seek to raise liquidity.
