Career
Wolfshohl is best known in cyclo-cross for winning the world championship three times, and in road racing for winning the 1965 Vuelta a España. The head of the velodrome in Dortmund, Otto Wederlin, wanted to turn Wolfshohl into a great six day track rider but Wolfshohl preferred cyclo-cross and road racing. Three of these were gold.
The first time that he reached the podium in the World championships of cyclo-cross was the bronze medal in 1958 behind the Frenchman André Dufraisse and the Italian Amerigo Severini.
A year later he prolonged his title in Hanover. The course was said to have been made or designed especially for Wolfshohl.
The UCI instructed that the course be made tougher but Wolfshohl was in great form and spent most of the race alone at the front. Longo came back to Wolfshohl in the second last lap but with an acceleration Wolfshohl dropped the Italian.
In 1962 Wolfshohl was sick and could not finish the World Championship race.
In the following years Wolfshohl focused more on road racing, using cyclo-cross in the winter. In 1968 Wolfshohl had to return his silver medal at the Cyclo-cross World Championships because of a positive doping test. Wolfshohl became a professional road racer in 1960 by the Rapha-Gitane team
In 1962 he was beaten in a two man sprint by Jef Planckaert in Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
In the World Championships road race of that year, Wolfshohl finished fourth behind Jean Stablinski of France. In the 18th stage, Wolfshohl crashed on a descent and had to wait for his teammate.
Wolfshohl would finish the race sixth. He retired in 1975 and began a bike shop.
From 1995 until 2000 he was involved in the organisation of the Rund um Kölane