 BERLIN: The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who earned renown in his own right as a director of an acclaimed German boys choir, has died at 96. The Regensburg diocese in Bavaria, where Ratzinger lived, said that he died on Wednesday. His death came just over a week after Benedict made a four-day visit to Regensburg to be with his ailing brother. 