Rudolf Carl Von Slatin - Later Life

Later Life

He received absolution from the Pope for his conversion to Islam, which he had reversed.

On 21 June 1914, Rudolf Carl von Slatin married Baroness Alice von Ramberg. The wedding took place in the Votivkirche in Vienna. In 1916, their daughter Anne Marie Helene was born .

During the years he served the British Empire, he became acquainted with Robert Baden-Powell and became his friend. So it was not surprising that he was asked to serve within the new founded Austrian Scout organisation. From 1914 to 1918, he was the Honorary Chief Scout of the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund. In January 1929 a letter of Rudolf Carl von Slatin is published under the title Ehrenbundesfeldmeister (National Chief Scout) in the Austrian Scout Magazine "Unser Weg".

He was also a Honorary member of the Royal Geographical Society.

In 1918, on behalf of the Austrian government led by Renner, he was instrumental, through his British contacts, in ensuring the supply of food and coal from Czechoslovakia for the beleaguered and starving inhabitants of Vienna. For this he was made an honorary citizen of Vienna in June 1932.

In 1919, he was a member of the Austrian delegation in St. Germain. and was responsible for the repatriation of Prisoners of War.

In 1919, a Scout group of the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund in Klosterneuburg was named Slatin Pascha.

In November 1918 after the war Rudolf Carl von Slatin moved to Switzerland. In 1922 after the early death of his wife he moved to the South Tyrol and lived in a villa in Obermais a quarter of Meran. Every Summer, with his daughter, he would visit his old Sudan comrades in England.

In November and December 1926 he visited the Sudan one again.

In June 1932, he and his daughter Anne Marie were guests of George V.

He died on 4 October 1932, during an operation for cancer in Vienna, and was buried on 6 October in the cemetery of Ober St. Veit, a suburb of Vienna. His funeral looked like a state funeral. His grave is still there.