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Death
In late-1918, List was in poor health during the final stages of World War I in
which the naval blockade of the Central Powers created food shortages in Vienna.
This caused poor health in the now 70 year old von List.
In the spring of 1919, at the age of 71, List and his wife set off to recuperate
and meet followers at the maner-house of Eberhard von Brockhusen, a List society
patron who lived at Langen in Brandenburg, Germany.
On arrival at the Anhalter Station at Berlin, List was too exhausted to continue
the journey. After a doctor had diagnosed a lung inflammation, his health
deteriorated quickly, and he died in a Berlin guesthouse on the morning of May
17, 1919. He was cremated in Leipzig and his ashes laid in an urn and then
buried in Vienna Central Cemetery, Zentralfriedhof, in the gravesite KNLH 413 -
Vienna's largest and most famous cemetery (including the graves of Beethoven,
Brahms, Schubert and Strauss.) in Vienna's 11th district of Simmering.
Philipp Stauff, a Berlin journalist, good friend of list and Armanist, wrote an
obituary which appeared in the Münchener Beobachter called "Guido von List
gestorben" on May 24, 1919, p. 4.
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