Brutal Acid Attack Prompts Executive to Hunt Down His Assailants

It was a cold and sunny Sunday morning on March 4, 2018, and Bernhard Günther spotted snowflakes as he walked through Haan, a quiet and leafy suburb of Düsseldorf. The area is called Musikantenviertel, or musicians’ quarter, for the street names that pay homage to famous composers: Beethoven, Wagner and Mozart. Günther, who at the time was the chief financial officer of energy company Innogy SE, was returning home from his weekly jog with a handful of neighbors.

He had just said goodbye to the last of the group and made his usual stop at a local bakery. ...