In esilio dopo la guerra fu catturato e consegnato per la polizia segreta nazista, la Gestapo, al dittatore spagnolo Francisco Franco, che lo mandò a fucilare il 1940. ###>Exiled after the war, he was captured and handed over by the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, to the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, who had him executed by firing squad in 1940.