[2] Finally, he was elected to the Frankfurt Parliament, representing Klosterneuburg in the left-wing Donnersberg Faction [de].
When they made it back, in 1850, he found himself expelled to his estate in Gainfarn, where they lived in seclusion for two years before being allowed to re-enter.
[citation needed] Later, he spent a few years in Dresden, while Ida was helping to direct the Linz State Theatre, and had an intermittent correspondence with the conservative Baron Alexander von Bach.
When he once again returned to Vienna, he took a more centrist position and, in 1859, became one of the founding members and first Chairman of the Presseclub Concordia [de], an organization devoted to helping journalists in need.
[citation needed] He spent his final years at Heiligenkreuz Abbey in the Vienna Woods, where he died on 1 September 1886.