His name appears in the Panthéon among dead writers of the Field of Honour during the 1914-1918 war.
He and his crew, Oberfeldwebel Josef Renette and Unteroffizier Kurt Röber, were killed in a flying accident on 12 March 1944 on a routine flight from Parchim to Athies-sous-Laon.
Laon-Athies Air Base is an abandoned military airfield, which is located near the city of Laon in the Aisne department of France.