Also Wagner von Wetterstädt returned to Austria in 1881 and retired in 1885 as a Major from the Austrian army. At the request of Naser al-Din Shah, Wagner von Wetterstädt areturned to Persia with the rank of general in the Persian army in 1886. He reorganized the army and was given the title 'Khan'. As commander of the army he led numerous missions and accompanied the Shah to the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889. He did not return until 1901 for health reasons in his native Transylvania, where he died on 30 September 1902 in Hermannstadt.