Hendrik Snoek: Difference between revisions

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'''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> He was kidnapped on 3 November 1976 and held for a DM 5,000,000 ransom. He was discovered by a lorry driver, tied up in service room in a pillar of a 52 meter high road bridge, the [[Ambachtalbrücke]] near [[Herborn]] over the A45, after the ransom was paid by his father. A considerable amount of the ransom was eventually recovered.{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}} He was a founder of the [[Westphalian Horse Museum]] in [[Münster]].