Commanded a terror raid in Penzberg on April 28 and 29, 1945 in which,
after the local city council council's break with the NSDAP was crushed
by the Wehrmacht, 16 citizens who were deemed "non-reliable" were
executed. For this he was sentenced to death in June 1948. His life was
saved by the abolition of the death penalty in 1949 in the new German
constitution and the verdict was changed to 20 years prison. He was
pardoned in the late 1950s, due to bad health.