[2][3] He undertook voluntary training with the daily newspaper Nordischer Kurier in Itzehoe, before returning to Wittenberge and studying economics for a semester at the University of Kiel.

Wolf's superior SS-Sturmbannführer, Kurt Gritschke, awarded the Nazi Party Member (membership number 4.982.494) for "excellent achievement" in 1940.

He co-authored the 1950 series „Am Cafeehandel betheiligt" ("On those Involved in the Coffee Trade“) with Horst Mahnke, alongside whom he had studied with Franz Six in Königsberg.

The series appeared in Der Spiegel, and attributed main responsibility for coffee smuggling to Jewish displaced persons.

The research of former Der Spiegel editor Peter-Ferdinand Koch suggests that Wolff worked with former personal Press adjudant to Joseph Goebbels, Wilfred von Oven, during this time, focusing on matters of foreign reporting.

This includes stories relating to Charles de Gaulle (1952) and John Foster Dulles (1953 and 1959), eight on the legacy of German statesman Konrad Adenauer (1961/1962), one on Soviet politician Yekaterina Furtseva (1957), and fifteen on the consequences of global communism.

The fifteen articles were published in book form by M. DuMont Schauberg in 1961, under the title Warten auf das letzte Gefecht.

[citation needed] In 1953, Wolff additionally wrote a sort of reflection piece in the Zeitschrift für Geopolitik (Journal for Geopolitics).

He conducted several interviews for Der Spiegel in this capacity, including with Jean-Paul Sartre, Max Horkheimer, Arnold Gehlen and Martin Heidegger.