Carl Wolff was an architect, building councillor and politician. He was born in Wuppertal. After studying architecture in Berlin-Charlottenburg, he was appointed government architect in 1886. He constructed various municipal buildings such as hospitals, schools and indoor swimming pools. Wolff’s architectural work is characterised by the transition from historicism to neo-baroque and art nouveau.
From 1898, Wolff worked as a state planning officer for the provincial administration in Hanover, where he designed the Lüneburg sanatorium and nursing home, among other things. In 1902, he was appointed City Planning Councillor of Hanover. He later also became a member of the Hanover provincial parliament.
Wolff spent the rest of his life in Munich, where he died at the age of 69.
