Hendrik Snoek a former German show jumper and now businessman. He was kidnapped on 3 November 1976 and held for a DM 5,000,000 ransom. He was released when the ransom was paid by his father and considerable amount of the ransom was eventually recovered. He was a founder of the Westphalian Horse Museum in Münster.
Show jumping
Snoek won the 1972 Hickstead Derby.