The complete manuscript remained in the possession of the family of William Astor Chanler for many decades and was finally published in 2000. Höhnel later wrote a 56-page account of his service as aide-de-camp to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, which was never published. He died in Vienna in March 1942, and is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. Höhnel is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of chameleon, "Trioceros hoehnelii". In 1958 the in Vienna was named after him.