[3] After leaving the post of administrator of Obertaunus, he worked from 1902 until 1905 in Berlin and later from 1905 until 1919 as district president of Wiesbaden.

[4] On 1 June 1919 during the German Revolution of 1918–1919, Meister resigned after the French administrator demanded he submit to the separatist government.

[2] In 1930, Meister represented the Weimar Republic as a delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva.

[6] Meister married Adele Jordan de Rouville on 31 October 1892, and had two children.

Following the death of his first wife on 22 June 1897, Meister married Leila Trapmann on 18 January 1900 at St Peter's Church in London.