Danube–Black Sea Canal
On 12 August 1948 he was arrested by the Communist authorities in Codlea and sent without trial to penal colonies at the Danube–Black Sea Canal (Castelu), Onești, and Târgu Ocna. In 1955 the Military Tribunal dropped the case against him, and assigned him to forced domicile in Balș. He was rehabilitated in 1964, and died in Brașov in 1979. According to his wish, he was cremated, and his ashes were scattered by scouts of the 2nd Mountain Troops Brigade on the Moldoveanu, Pietrosul Rodnei, and Omu peaks.