Hendrik Snoek: Difference between revisions

'''Hendrik Snoek''' 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 under a motorway bridge, after the ransom was paid by his fathefather. 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]].