Background
Wolff was born in Tarnau, Kreis Frankenstein, Silesia (now Tarnów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, (Ząbkowice Śląskie), Poland).
Wolff was born in Tarnau, Kreis Frankenstein, Silesia (now Tarnów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, (Ząbkowice Śląskie), Poland).
In 1831 he became active as a radical student organization member, for which he was imprisoned between 1834 and 1838. Wolff emigrated to Switzerland in 1849 and then to England in 1851. Intrepid, faithful, noble protagonist of the proletariat."
Gerhart Hauptmann"s play Die Weber (The Weavers) is based on Wolff"s essay about the weavers" uprising in Silesia in 1844 and its suppression, Das Elend und der Aufuhr in Schlesien.
He served as an editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in 1848-1849 and as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly.