Here he met his future wife, Emmy Freundlich (1878–1948[2]), the daughter of the former mayor of Ústí nad Labem, Kögler.

Shortly after his departure from the Reichstag, Leo Freundlich divorced his wife Emma, who then permanently profiled herself as a prominent figure in the Austrian labor movement and cooperatives.

Most notably, his book Albania's Golgotha in 1913 presented a series of reports on the massacres of Albanians by Serbian troops during the Balkan Wars.

He lived in Vienna until August 1938, but due to escalating racial persecution in Nazi Germany, he moved to Switzerland, where he worked in the Albanian representation at the League of Nations in Geneva.

When the Communists took power in Albania after the war, he tried unsuccessfully to appeal to the Deputy Prime Minister, Koçi Xoxe, with the wish to become the Albanian Honorary Consul in Vienna.