Hendrik Snoek: Difference between revisions

'''Hendrik Snoek''' is a former German [[show jumper]] who later became a businessman. Snoek was heir to a supermarket fortune.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/beached|title = Beached}}</ref>

==Kidnapping==
[[File:Ambachtalbrücke01 2013-04-29.jpg|thumb|View of the Ambachtalbrücke from the valley]]
He was kidnapped on 3 November 1976 and held for a DM 5,000,000 ransom. He was discovered tiedby a lorry driver, chained up underin service room in a motorwaypillar of a 52 meter high road bridge, bythe a[[Ambachtalbrücke]] lorrynear driver[[Herborn, Hesse|Herborn]] over the A45, after the ransom was paid by his father. and A considerable amount of the ransom was eventually recovered.{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}}

==Westphalian Horse Museum==
He was a founder of the [[Westphalian Horse Museum]] in [[Münster]].

Snoek won the 1972 [[All England Jumping Course at Hickstead|Hickstead Derby]] on [[Shirokko]]. He was a reserve at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]] for [[West Germany]]. He won the [[Royal Dublin Society|R.D.S.]] [[Dublin]] [[Grand Prix show jumping|Grand Prix]] in 1984 riding the [[chestnut (coat)|chestnut]] [[mare]] Palma Nova.

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