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Wolzogen was an Austrian baron, humanly speaking born to exercise worldly power. He was offered high and prestigious positions in the Empire, provided he remained a Roman Catholic.

He firmly refused all such opportunities, and chose instead to suffer affliction with the people of God.

Knowing from personal experience the temptations that power and worldly authority inevitably bring, he campaigned tirelessly within the Household for an uncompromising stand on conscientious objection to war, force and all political entanglements.

When in 1636 Jonas Szlichtyng was wavering and suggesting that "resistance in defence of one's own life is just; petty injuries should be forgiven but one must defend one's property", 252 Wolzogen entered the lists with vigour and contended for a totally uncompromising stand (see WOLZOGEN ON WAR). It proved in the long run to be in the best interests of the Brotherhood.

The erstwhile baron-turned-humble-preacher lived, taught and died in the then Austrian province of Silesia (since 1945 in Poland).64