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.
After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II, he resided in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and later moved to Wermelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia before his death in 1980.