title: Hendrik Snoek
text: # Hendrik Snoek
  
  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 by a lorry driver, tied up under a motorway bridge, after the ransom was paid by his father. A 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 on Shirokko. He was a reserve at the 1976 Summer Olympics for West Germany. He won the R.D.S. Dublin Grand Prix in 1984 riding the chestnut mare Palma Nova.
  
  