Lothar Hintze is a German Hotelier, which was kidnapped from 2001 to 2006 of the Colombian Guerillaorganisation FARC. After over five years captivity as a hostage became released Hintze on 4 April 2006.

Hintze became to 16. March 2001 on its hotel area El Prado in the Colombian Federal State Tolima with force of arms kidnapped and was since then in the hand of the Guerilla. After long time was unclear whether it concerned in its case an economic or politically motivated kidnapping, led him the FARC starting from at the end of of 2004 in a list of 63 kidnapped persons, among them the former presidency candidate Ingrid Betancourt, whose release in the framework of the FARC of wished prisoner exchange should be negotiated. Thus the case received political explosiveness.

The members Hintzes had already paid several euro to hundredthousand according to own data to the Guerillas. The woman of the kidnapped one, Rosy Cano de Hintze, accused to the German government the case Hintze enough attention to have never given since it by its long stay in Colombia as "half Kolumbianer "am classified. The German government did not support lastingly its release. In contrast to this the statement of Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank walter stone Meier stands that the crisis staff of the State Department in its case carried ""work out for many years and patient.

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