December 30, 1873 Altschweier, Baden + January 6, 1932 Nairobi

He had learned farming when in October 1890 he followed several young men from his hometown to Cellule to enter the Congregation, for at that time the Congregation was still forbidden to have houses in Germany. Professed on November 1, 1893 at Cellule, he remained in France for three years and then received his appointment to East Africa. On arrival there in 1896, he made his African apprenticeship in Bagamoyo; then three years later he accompanied Fr. Schmidt to the island of Pemba, where a new mission was to be opened; he took care of the flower plantation which provided for its subsistence. The following year his agricultural talents got a wider scope in the mission of Bura, Kenya. And when the St. Austin mission in Nairobi needed  an experienced man for its coffee plantation, it was again to Brother's talents that an appeal was made. He looked not only after the coflee bushes but also to the spiritual welfare of the men working with him. 

During World War One he escaped being interned as an enemy alien because he was then working in the more remote plantations of Kiambu and Mangu, where his existence was forgotten. It was in the mission of Mangu that he continued to work for the remainder of his life, but as ill health made plantation work less suitable for him, he became doctor

and nurse for the Kikuyu, visiting them in their huts, pansing their ulcers, feeding those abandoned by relatives and friends, burying the dead and consoling the bereaved. lt is said that by his example he eradicated the traditional aversion of the Kikuyu to the sick and to touching the dead.

When he himself died at last after an operation, the Kikuyu disputed each other the honor of touching him and carrying the body of this heroic doer of the corporal works of mercy to his grave.