Paul Matthias Dobberstein (September 21, 1872 – July 24, 1954) was a German American priest and architect. Dobberstein was born in Rosenfeld, Germany to Francis "Frank" Dobberstein and Julia Froehlich. Father Dobberstein was educated at the university of Deutsch-Krone in Germany and at the St. Francis Seminary, in St. Francis, Wisconsin. He was ordained on June 30, 1897.