After the fall of the Habsburg empire, he retired from public service and died in Schwertberg on 20 October 1937.
In February 1945, family Langthaler, who lived in a farmhouse in Schwertberg, hid two Russian prisoners of war: Michail Rybtschinskij (died 2008) und Nikolai Zimkolo (died 2001), who escaped from the concentration camp in Mauthausen.
Until 1848 the community was part of other surrounding entities, including the dominions of Prandegg, Zellhof Castle, Schwertberg and Ruttenstein.