 This resulted in his disgrace, and he left the party in 1961, finding employment as an administrator in the social security system until retirement.In 1995, he was formally rehabilitated by the leader of the Communist party, and in 1997 he stood on the Communist list for the European parliamentary elections.Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont was the father of the president of Haut Conseil à l'intégration ("high council on immigration"), Blandine Kriegel, the father-in-law of journalist Alexandre Adler and the brother-in-law of historian Annie Kriegel.