The best known story about him stems from a “business trip” that he made to Berlin in the time of the Third Reich. It is said that, while hawking his stock of herring, he called out on the street "“Hering, so fett wie de Göring !”" (“Herring, as fat as Göring!”), for which he was carted off to prison for eight days. After he was released, he went straight back to his herring hawking, calling out "“Hering, so fett wie die vorig Woch !”" (“Herring, as fat as last week!”).