Hendrik Snoek
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Hendrik Snoek is a former German show jumper who later became a businessman. Snoek was heir to a supermarket fortune.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/beached|title = Beached}}
Kidnapping
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He was kidnapped on 3 November 1976 and held for a DM 5,000,000 ransom. He was discovered by a lorry driver, chained 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}}
Westphalian Horse Museum
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.
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Category:German male equestrians
Category:German show jumping riders
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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