page_title: Rodewald
section_title: The Strangler of Lichtenmoor
hierarchical_section_title: Rodewald / Local Wildlife / The Strangler of Lichtenmoor
caption_attribution_description: English: On this spot on the 27th of August 1948, The Strangler of Lichtenmoor, a powerfully built male wolf, was shot by farmer Hermann Gaatz of Eilte.
context_page_description: Rodewald is an agricultural village in the district of Nienburg, Lower Saxony and is locally administrated by Steimbke. At 14 km in length, Rodewald is considered the second longest village in Lower Saxony, Germany and is split into three farming communities or peasantries, known simply as; Lower, Middle and Upper Farming Community.
  It is situated approximately 40 km to the north of the federal state capital, Hanover, 125 km south of Germany's second largest city, Hamburg and belonged until the administrative and territorial reforms of 1974, to the district of Neustadt am Rübenberge.
context_section_description: The last wolf in the area was destroyed by a 61 years of age farmer named Hermann Gaatz on 27 August 1948 around the Schotenheide area between Eilte and Rodewald. It followed what had become a period of local hysteria known as Würger vom Lichtenmoor, or the Strangler of Lichtenmoor, after a number of domestic pets, cattle, sheep and wildlife had been found mutilated injuries tended to be unusually clean cuts and around the hind right quarters, which suggested a human with a knife rather than those inflicted by a predatory animal). A stone was positioned on the very spot where the animal fell, which had been found to be a 6-year-old male weighing 43 kg, with a shoulder height of 85 cm and length of 1.70 cm, who last seen stalking deer.
  The claim to fame of shooting the last wolf in the area proved short lived as in 1955 a conservationist called William Scharff shot what was in fact to be the very last one. Although no others have been seen to date, it has been suggested that the wolves are slowly returning from the east and Poland.
caption: On this spot on 27 August 1948, The Strangler of Lichtenmoor, a powerfully built male wolf, was shot by farmer Hermann Gaatz of Eilte
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