Hendrik Snoek a former German show jumper who later became a businessman.
Snoek was heir to a supermarket fortune.
He was kidnapped on 3 November 1976 and held for a DM 5,000,000 ransom.
He was discovered tied up under a motorway bridge, by a lorry driver, after 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.