At the war's end he joined the Austro-Hungarian Army, studying law at the German Charles University in Prague from 15 January 1919 to 1923.
[2] He then worked as a lawyer at the International Court of Justice and in the early 1930s served two years as Austrian consul in Addis Ababa until he was recalled in February 1934 for some of his activities "not being compatible with diplomatic office".
He remarried on 19 April 1941 in Prague to Anna Krzesaldo von Lindenstand and in 1944 he was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht.
At the end of the war he was sentenced to seven years in prison and labouring in salt mines as a collaborator with Nazi Germany.
The Central Office for Personal and Family History awarded him the Silver Medal of Merit on 16 February 16 1979, and from 1980 he was an honorary member of the Adler Heraldic-Genealogical Society in Vienna.