He wanted to offer the young learners a possibility to have an education, so that they would be able to travel and experience the world later on in life. His ideas were put to life by his descendants in form of the "Caesar Ritz Stiftung Niederwald" later on.
On the 23rd October 1918 the world lost a special person, when Caesar Ritz, the "King of hoteliers and hotelier of kings", died a lonely death at the age of 68. It was lonely because his wife Marie-Louise Ritz couldn't get to her husband on time, due to immigration difficulties.
Marie-Louise Ritz had to travel back to Paris with her husband's coffin just two months after the funeral of their son René Ritz. Caesar Ritz was buried in the cemetery "Père Lachaise" in Paris next to his son. Later his remains were returned to his home village Niederwald, where he had once departed from as a bright, curious boy.
