Hailing from a traditional Cologne locksmith family Wyland led since the 1920s by large orders in Germany and Europe.

At the age of 17, Carl Hubert Wyland decided to continue the family tradition and began a three-year apprenticeship in his father's business.

There Wyland was trained in forging technology, structural engineering, building construction and technical design.

His wife Mary, born Frings – whom he married in 1921 – was a sister of the Cologne architect Ernst Wilhelm Scheidt (1889-1961).

One of the last students, trained in Cologne in the Wyland ironwork shortly before his death in 1972 was the Neuwied blacksmith and metal sculptor Klaus Rudolf Werhand.