His Reichstag membership was revoked in June 1933. He was also placed under arrest for two months and was under police supervision for another two years. Retired, he then lived a withdrawn life in Berlin until 1945. After 1945, Wissell worked on rebuilding the SPD in Berlin. He clearly rejected a unification of the SPD and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In the last years of his life, he received many different honours: in 1949 he became an honorary citizen of Berlin and in 1954 received the "Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz" (Great Cross of Merit). Wissell died in West Berlin on 13 December 1962. He was buried in a grave of honour of the Berlin Senate in the graveyard of the Protestant church " in the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. Today, his name is carried by the " between Charlottenburg und Charlottenburg-Nord, at 960 meters the longest road bridge of Berlin, as well as the "Rudolf-Wissell-Siedlung" (Rudolf Wissell Settlement) in Staaken, built in the 1970s, and the "Rudolf-Wissell-Grundschule" (Rudolf Wissell Primary School) in Gesundbrunnen.