Voigt is arrested on October 26th, 1906 and sentenced on December 1st, 1906 to an imprisonment of 4 years "because of unauthorizedly wearing of a uniform, offence against the public order, wrongful deprivation of personal liberty, deceit and heavy falsification of a document".

Due to a pardon by his majesty the emperor, Wilhelm Voigt is released from prison on August 16th, 1908. The message of his dismissal is taken by the surprised public as a great event. Voigt starts with his second life by trying to capitalize on it.

Voigt appears in the arcade waxworks Unter den Linden on August 20th, four days after his dismissal. He signs photos there and gives speeches to the audience. These appearances as well as every further appearance of Voigt in the public are forbidden still on the same day. 

Voigt plans operettas and appearances in the variety theatres in Vienna and Budapest which, however, fail. He appears in small theatres by the German fairs, hotels and restaurants and signs postcards which show him as a "Captain of Koepenick". 

At first the attempt to enter the USA fails because of the immigration authorities. End of March 1910, he manages to come into the USA via Canada. He can celebrate great successes with his appearance there. Further journeys lead him to England, he is displayed in the waxworks of the madam Tussaut in London. 

By his appearances and the sale of  his memoirs "How I became a captain of Koepenick. My biography. By Wilhelm Voigt, called captain of Koepenick", which are published in a Leipzig publishing house in 1909 Voigt comes to money. He buys a house for himself in Luxembourg, Neyperger Street 5 and retires.

Because of war and inflation he becomes impoverished. Wilhelm Voigt dies in Luxembourg on January 3rd, 1922 and is buried at the expense of the relief fund on the cemetery Notre Dame. 

The rent for the grave of Wilhelm Voigt went off in 1942, was prolonged, however, 1944 by an anonymous donator by deposit of 4000 frs for another 30 years. In 1961 the dilapidated grave place was arranged newly by the German circus [Sarrasani ... ] and provided with a marble plate, which, however, showed the wrong year of birth 1850. This was exchanged for a memorial stone later, again with the wrong year of birth. 

In the year 1974 the grave place should be dissolved definitely due to Luxembourg laws. The international reaction being carried out after that motivated the city of Luxembourg to the now unlimited prolongation of the grave right.

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