 His assets were frozen and, in May 1938, a seizure order was issued that allowed the state to dispose of his property as they felt fit.His sugar factory was confiscated and turned over to the state, and went through a process of Aryanisation as Jewish shareholders and managers were replaced.His Viennese residence became an office of , the German railway company, while his castle in Czechoslovakia was taken after the German occupation as the personal residence of the "SS-Obergruppenführer" Reinhard Heydrich.