 He laid down all his military functions and moved to Luzern in Switserland, where the couple lived until he was pardoned by the Emperor in 1871.The couple returned to Lombardy–Venetia where Heinrich Anton retired from the army and lived in a palace in the Musterstreet in Bolzano.On a rare visit to Vienna in 1891, both Heinrich Anton and his wife contracted pneumonia and they died in the same night.