After leaving Austria he fulfilled his earlier imperially denied wish and studied natural sciences and especially botanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the Frederick William's University of Berlin and the Louis Maximilian's University of Munich.
In summer 1915 he applied as a volunteer for the German Army, but was rejected on the grounds of his Swiss citizenship.

After World War I Wölfling's allowance from his meanwhile expropriated family stopped.
In 1921 he returned to Austria, desperately searching for a livelihood.
Fluent in German, English, French, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, and Portuguese; he worked for some time as a foreign language correspondence clerk.
After more jobs he later opened a delicatessen store in Vienna where he sold salami and olive oil.
He also tried his hand as a tourist guide in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna and was very well received by his audiences.
Unfortunately, the interest his person awoke in the Austrian capital proved to be too much for the ex-Archduke and he fled the city again.

 A telegramme invited him to come to Berlin, Germany, to comment the premiere of the German silent film (Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg; i.e. The fate of the Habsburgs), unable to pay the fare the film company advanced him the money.
So on 16 November 1928 Wölfling provided a live commentary to the film in the Primus-Palast cinema on Potsdamer Straße in Tiergarten, Berlin, afterwards touring with the film through - among others - Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Düsseldorf, Trier, Cologne and Montreux.

 After that he lived in Berlin.
Here he worked few menial jobs: He acted in a cabaret and wrote memoirs.
In late 1932 he wrote a series of articles on his life at the Hofburg, published in the Berliner Morgenpost.
However, for his start article he chose a subject of highest topicality in then Germany.
In his first article, appearing on 2 October under the headline Es gibt keine Rassen-Reinheit.
Mitteleuropa der große Schmelztiegel (i.e. There is no racial purity.
Central Europe the great melting pot), he confronted the spreading racism and the garbled ideas on racial purity.
With such daring theses in the Nazi poisoned public atmosphere before their takeover Wölfling had reduced his opportunities to publish under their reign.

His third marriage in Niederschöneweide with the Berlin-born Klara Hedwig Pawlowski (1902–1978) was announced in the Berliner Morgenpost on 11 April 1933.
His wife tried to defray their livelihood also selling his silverware to a jeweller, who, seeing the monogramme, however, informed the police for suspect of theft, only to figure out that Wölfling had consented.

Wölfling died impoverished on July, 4th 1935 in his third-floor flat in the rear wing of Belle-Alliance-Straße 53 (now renamed and renumbered Mehringdamm 119) in Berlin.
His and his widow's graves are preserved in the Protestant Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No.
III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.
His last book appeared posthumously.
After leaving Austria he fulfilled his earlier imperially denied wish and studied natural sciences and especially botanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the Frederick William's University of Berlin and the Louis Maximilian's University of Munich. In summer 1915 he applied as a volunteer for the German Army, but was rejected on the grounds of his Swiss citizenship.
After World War I Wölfling's allowance from his meanwhile expropriated family stopped. In 1921 he returned to Austria, desperately searching for a livelihood. Fluent in German, English, French, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, and Portuguese; he worked for some time as a foreign language correspondence clerk. After more jobs he later opened a delicatessen store in Vienna where he sold salami and olive oil. He also tried his hand as a tourist guide in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna and was very well received by his audiences. Unfortunately, the interest his person awoke in the Austrian capital proved to be too much for the ex-Archduke and he fled the city again.
 A telegramme invited him to come to Berlin, Germany, to comment the premiere of the German silent film (Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg; i.e. The fate of the Habsburgs), unable to pay the fare the film company advanced him the money. So on 16 November 1928 Wölfling provided a live commentary to the film in the Primus-Palast cinema on Potsdamer Straße in Tiergarten, Berlin, afterwards touring with the film through - among others - Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Düsseldorf, Trier, Cologne and Montreux.
 After that he lived in Berlin. Here he worked few menial jobs: He acted in a cabaret and wrote memoirs. In late 1932 he wrote a series of articles on his life at the Hofburg, published in the Berliner Morgenpost. However, for his start article he chose a subject of highest topicality in then Germany. In his first article, appearing on 2 October under the headline Es gibt keine Rassen-Reinheit. Mitteleuropa der große Schmelztiegel (i.e. There is no racial purity. Central Europe the great melting pot), he confronted the spreading racism and the garbled ideas on racial purity. With such daring theses in the Nazi poisoned public atmosphere before their takeover Wölfling had reduced his opportunities to publish under their reign.
His third marriage in Niederschöneweide with the Berlin-born Klara Hedwig Pawlowski (1902–1978) was announced in the Berliner Morgenpost on 11 April 1933. His wife tried to defray their livelihood also selling his silverware to a jeweller, who, seeing the monogramme, however, informed the police for suspect of theft, only to figure out that Wölfling had consented.
Wölfling died impoverished on July, 4th 1935 in his third-floor flat in the rear wing of Belle-Alliance-Straße 53 (now renamed and renumbered Mehringdamm 119) in Berlin. His and his widow's graves are preserved in the Protestant Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor. His last book appeared posthumously.
Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria