Appearently he had large debts and his license to sell Stihl hardware (which he made a living of) was revoked. At least, that's what some are saying. I don't care why, though. I lost my uncle. Tis a sad day.
EDIT: which arsefuck is responsible for censoring regular words (toni/ght) into complete bullshit?
I did it to fill my daily make-firecheetah-unhappy quota and had it on "loose" instead of "exact". It's fixed now, though.