Michael Kraus (minister)

Michael Kraus (March 26, 1908 – November 16, 2003) was a Canadian entrepreneur and minister in the New Apostolic Church.

Mihail Krauss was the eldest son of a tavern-owning farmer in Meeburg, a village of 950 German-speaking Lutheran Saxons in the Transylvania region of Romania.

After hours he built apartments, beginning a lifelong interest in real estate and construction.

By his death in 2003, Kraus companies employed over 900 people at facilities across Canada, in the United States and in Australia.

Michael Kraus joined the New Apostolic Church in 1932 and was ordained into the ministry one year later.