Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1968, Fr. Andreas grew up in Aachen. He obtained the Diplom (U.S. equivalent: S.T.M.) in Catholic Theology and his First State Examination Degree (Staatsexamen; U.S. equivalent: M.A.) in German Language and Literature (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, 1992 and 1993 respectively). He spent two semesters (1989/1990) of his theological studies with the Theological Year of Studies at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, Israel. From 1993 to 1994, he worked as an assistant nurse at the hospice Haus Hörn in Aachen, Germany.

After joining the Legionaries of Christ in 1994, he studied classical humanities for one year in Salamanca, Spain (1996-1997), and in 1999 he received a Licentiate in Philosophy (U.S. equivalent: M.A.) at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome, Italy. Since 1999, he has taught Latin, Greek, History, Art, and Music courses at the Legion of Christ College of Humanities in Cheshire, CT. A priest since 2003, he has served as Academic Dean from 2009 to 2019.

In 2013, Fr. Andreas earned his Ph.D. in Classical Civilization at the Classics Department of the University of Florida. In recent years, he has taught Western Civilization, Music Theory and History, and Chant. In addition, he serves as a spiritual director, confessor, and choir director for the seminary and as a chaplain for Regnum Christi members in Upstate New York. He is a member of the International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and Its Cultural Heritage (MOISA),  The Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music.

From 2020 to 2022, Fr. Andreas was a visiting scholar with the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, IN, with an interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome, to initiate an extensive research and publication project on integral formation on which he continues to work at present while resuming to teach part-time at Legion of Christ College.

On September 13, 2024, Fr. Andreas successfully completed the six-semester Spiritual Direction Certificate Program with Divine Mercy University, Sterling, VA.

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