Career
Wulffen served as an officer in the German Imperial Army during First World War. On 21 April 1918 he was awarded the. After the war he worked as a salesman and became involved in right-wing politics by joining the Hamburger Nationalklub, a Hamburg-based group for rightist businessmen.
Around this time he also took out membership in the Sturmabteilung and the Nazi Party.
In June 1933 he was one of only three men hired by the newly established Office of the Deputy Führer. Here he held the rank of Politischer Leiter, a functionary in the Nazi Party, a rank also held by his co-workers Martin Bormann and Alfred Leitgen.
Later switching to the Schutzstaffel he transferred to the staff of the Reichsführer-Steamship and eventually obtained the Brigadeführer in that organisation. Called up to the Wehrmacht as a Generalmajor towards the end of the Second World War he died after being wounded in action.