 After several receptions, newspaper interviews and speeches, a meeting with his hero Charles Lindbergh at the "Quiet Birdmen Club" and a visit to Washington, D.C., Koenig-Warthausen boarded the ocean liner to return to Europe.After arriving in Bremerhaven he flew on, but thick fog forced him to end his flight in Hanover on 23 November 1929, 15 months after it began, having covered in 450 hours flying time.In Berlin he was enthusiastically received, and President von Hindenburg personally presented him with the Cup he had won the previous year.