Category

Kidnapped businesspeople

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Hanns Martin Schleyer

German manager and president of industry association, former SS officer and Nazi party member; kidnapped by terrorist group RAF in 1977 to force release of imprisoned terrorists, subsequently murdered

German entrepreneur (1922-2010)

Freddy Heineken

Dutch businessman (1923–2002)

Miroslav Mišković

Serbian businessman

Brazilian businessman (1936–2024)

Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia

Libyan politician (1931–1993)

Édouard-Jean Empain

Belgian industrialist made famous by his kidnapping in 1978

Leonard Firestone

American diplomat

Kwok Ping Sheung Walter

Hong Kong businessman (1950-2018)

Turkish drug trafficker (1964–1994)

Richard Morefield

American embassy staff member (1929-2010)