Cajetan J. B. Baumann

Brother Cajetan Baumann, OFM ( born August 3, 1899 in Green cabbage, † May 9, 1969 in New York City ) was an architect of the Franciscan Order, the constructed mainly in the USA, but also in other countries of the American continent numerous churches and religious buildings.

Baumann resigned after the experience of the First World War, in which he had participated as a pioneer two years in 1919 in the Franciscan Order one. His novitiate he graduated in the women's mountain monastery in Fulda. In 1925 he was sent by his order to New York to make a cabinetmaker and woodcarver a chapel. 1936 to 1941 he studied architecture at the Franciscan St. Bonaventure University in New York, a Master of Science degree he earned at New York's Columbia University.

Baumann was the first clergy member of the American Institute of Architects. He entertained in New York his own architectural office, but informed on the daily lives of his congregation. His expressionist buildings made ​​him known about the Order also. In 1968, the St. Bonaventure University awarded him an honorary doctorate.