Career
After training in construction, he went to the building and art school in Offenbach am Main. In 1914-1915 he worked for Friedrich Pützer in Darmstadt, who built the Evangelical Church in Hesse, and then for Dominic Bohm in Offenbach am Main. During 1919-1921 he lived as an Oblate (Brother Maurus, OSB) in the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach.
From 1921 to 1923 he ran a "studio for church architecture" with Bohm.
In 1924 he established himself as an independent architect in. In 1935 he founded a "Study Circle of Sacred Art" with Rudolf Schwarz.
He built mainly many Catholic churches, and became one of the leading church architects of the time.
