[1] In 1938 Wehrle worked at the public school of Marktbreit, but was forced to resign because of his lack of support for the Nazis.
He worked at the catholic congregations of Planegg and in Heilig Blut (Munich – Bogenhausen) and was in contact to Alfred Delp.
[1] On 13 December 1943 Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod asked him under the seal of confession about the theological justification of a tyrannicide.
Leonrod was involved in the 20 July plot and told the Gestapo about his confession.
[1] He was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof on 14 September 1944 for his knowledge of the plot and executed the same day in Plötzensee Prison next to Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten, Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband and Michael von Matuschka.