In 1955, aged just 27, he entered higher management at the Nuremberg headquarters of Grundig, then one of the major names in consumer electronics in Europe.

[4] The Government of the United Kingdom denied at the time that it had received any demands from the IRA in relation to the kidnapping.

However, several years later it was revealed that the UK government had briefly attempted to negotiate with the IRA, seeking the safe return of Niedermayer in exchange for the transfer of two IRA members, sisters Dolours Price and Marion Price, from prison in England to Northern Ireland.

[6] Nearly seven years later, on 11 March 1980, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, acting on information received, located Niedermayer's body lying face down and gagged, with hands tied, buried in an embankment at Colin Glen.

Bradley was originally charged with murder, but at his trial in 1981 he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, stating that he had accidentally killed Niedermayer whilst he was trying to escape.

Information later obtained by the Royal Ulster Constabulary revealed that the kidnapping operation had been orchestrated by Brian Keenan, a former employee of the Belfast Grundig factory where Niedermayer had been general manager.

[9] Niedermayer's wife, Ingeborg, returned to Ireland in 1990, ten years to the day after her husband's funeral, and booked into a hotel in Bray, where she died by suicide by walking into the sea from an isolated beach.