 Around the beginning of his leave, he became the president of the Seoul Club, also known as the German Club, a gentlemen's club headquartered in a building owned by German businessman Carl Andreas Wolter; however, according to American missionary Horace Allen, the club became defunct the following year, possibly due a land dispute in the German community.He set up the Imperial German Language School in Seoul in 1898; it continued operation until 1911.He was succeeded in his consular post by F. Reindorf, and later became the German consul at Kobe.