After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in 1952 he moved to Wermelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he died in 1980.
Following the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia following World War II, he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and then moved to Wermelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia before passing away there in 1980.