By ransom one understands a money, which is demanded as return for the release of hostages.

Release funds in history

Already in the antique one it was usual to extort ransom for prisoners. Thus the Roman field gentleman Gaius Julius Caesar came into the hands of pirates. After it had become released by payment of a sum of 20 talents, it led a fleet against the Piraten and took these prisoner.

Historically probably the highest ransom demanded the Spanish conquerer Francisco Pizarro in the year 1533 for the release of the Inka chieftain Atahualpa, which it had imprisoned taken in the battle of Cajamarca: approximately 25 tons of gold and silver.

Admits is also the shank of the English king Richard lion heart, which ended to 1194 after paying an immense ransom of 6000 buckets silver.

Release funds in the present

Today release funds are required mainly in the connection by kidnappings. In some countries the collection of release funds belongs to the organized criminality.

The country with at present most frequent occurrence of kidnap cases for extortion of ransom is South American Colombia.

The probably most spectacular demands for ransom in Germany concerned:

• Theo Albrecht, one the joint founder of Aldi
• Richard Oetker, the son of the Industriellen Rudolf August Oetker
• January Philipp Reemtsma, writer and
• Jakob von Metzler, Sohn of a banker

Ransom in the Bible

Also in the Bible the speech from a ransom (Markus 10,45 is; 1. Timotheus 2,5f). Thus the life devotion Jesu Christi is meant into death for the release of humans. At whom this ransom is paid, remains in the Biblical context openly. In interpretation history were called among other things: God, to which by death Jesu the perfect is brought, the devil and death, from their force humans to be redeemed. Likewise it remains open about which humans are released. In the connection of neutestamentlichen theology is to be thought particularly of the release from sin and death to.

Quotations

• Because also the son of humans did not come, in order to be served to serve but over and give its life as ransom for many. (Mk 10,45; zit. after the Elberfelder Bible (edition 1871))
• Because it is a God and an intermediary between God and humans, humans Christ Jesus, which gave itself as ransom for all. (1. Timotheusbrief 2,5-6; zit. after the butcher Bible (edition 2000))

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