Tiger of Sabrodt

Tiger of Sabrodt (Tiger von Sabrodt) is the name given to a wolf shot in Lusatia in 1904; it is the last free-living wolf to be shot within the current borders of Germany prior to 1945.

Death
The wolf was shot near the town of Hoyerswerda (then part of Silesia) on 27 February 1904, by a forester who received a 100 mark bounty for killing it. It had broken away from hunters several times and reputedly weighed 41 kg and measured 1.60 m long and 80 cm high at the shoulder.

The carcass was mounted and remains on display in the museum in Castle Hoyerswerda. In the meantime wolves have returned to Lusatia, successfully breeding there in 2009.