a kidnapping in which four men were involved. They released him on 26 April after receiving a ransom of 30 million German Marks. The mastermind of the kidnapping was tracked down in South America and extradited to Germany in 2000. The accomplices were also found and sentenced to many years in prison.

Reemtsma has also written a bestselling account of his experiences during a 1996 kidnapping (published in German as Im Keller in 1997, in English as In the Cellar