[2] Large parts of the forest belong to the House of Bismarck since 1871, who still have their headquarters at Friedrichsruh Castle on the edge of the Sachsenwald.

The forest area amounts to about 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres), of which 4,500 still belong to the House of Bismarck, residing at Friedrichsruh.

[1] The Red Army Faction (RAF) built a secret weapons depot in the Sachsenwald named Daphne, where a revolver, machine guns, and fake IDs were stored.

On 16 November 1982, Christian Klar, a RAF-member and terrorist, would be arrested near Friedrichsruh in the Sachsenwald while on his way to the, at that point known, depot.

[5] Due to the special historical status of the forest area, Georg von Bismarck has allegedly used the Sachsenwald as a tax haven.