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When the Sudetenland, the predominantly German settled regions along the fringes of Czechoslovakia, was annexed to Nazi Germany in 1938, he became a German subject and received an honorary promotion to Generalfeldmarschall of the German army.

In addition he was appointed honorary colonel-in-chief of Infantry Regiment 28 in his hometown of Troppau ( Opava ).

When he died in December 1941, he was accorded a state funeral with full military honors in Vienna.