WAGNER, Johann Georg

   General Notes:

Our Johann from Ottersheim was a local chief in Franzfeld
It is not completely impossible that the ancestors of this Politoffiziers originated from Ottersheim, after 1809 a certain wagner Johann had emigrated to south Russia as closed group of settlements are the Pfaelzer today in Russia disappeared.
Ottersheimer emigrants to south Russia-1809 Wagner Johann with family after Franzfeld to Odessa.

Neewiller
-Canton: Lauterbourg
-District Wissembourg
-department:Bas-Rhin


Immigrated to Franzfeld, Russia in 1805 from Germany.
Census Franzfeld Russia
Census 1816 Russia: 29yrs old Wife Anna
He came in 1805 to Franzfeld
Johann was an original settler of Franzfeld (meaning Watch). Founded-1805.

Another record shows he arrived 1809
Wagner, Johannes Winzenbach/Weisenburg El 1809 Taurien

Johann Wagner was Mayor of Franzfeld in 1820. He was 33 yrs old when He and a friend where allowed to return home to Alsace. Not many where allowed to return home to Germany. They both had been left an inheritance. Johann went to Neeweiler Germany and his friend (George Heisler) to his home.
They started out on May 19th. It took 75 days one way and they stayed one month. They returned leaving Germany at the end of August and arrived in Franzfeld On Nov 21st. This ended taking 5 months to travel.
(From Paradise on the Steppe-Joseph Height-pg 112)


May 19, 1820-The mayor, Johannes Wagner, and George Heisler from Franzfeld left for Germany on the 18th of May to get their property from there. On the 21 November they both returned safely.
(Keller vol 1 pg 233)

Page 571 Stumpp
Franzfeld 1816 census:

House 41
Johann 29, aus: Neeweiler/Weibenburg-El,
sein. Frau Anna 28,
sein Kinder Eva 4
Georg, *21. 8. 1817
Jacob, *12. 9. 1821
Daniel, *12. 8. 1823

Franzfeld was entirely Catholic. Mennonites where resettled ASAP.

Note 2: Johannes Wagner (deputy district leader) and Dr. Otto Broneske ( district leader from Tarutino) helped with the fate of Bessarabian Germans in both villages.


German word for "cartwright"

Ancient German names always consisted of two roots, usually terms denoting weapons, war, armies, courage, fame, victory and domination, such as brand [sword] ger [spear] rand [shield] and helm [helmet]; hilti, gund and wig [battle]; her [army], volk or diet [armed folk]; hart [brave and strong], mund [protection] and rich [rule or ruler]. They also took the names of brave animals such as wulf [wolf], ber [bear] and eber [wild boar].


Low German just means North German. Lower part of the valley.

North Germany is mostly a low coastal plain as opposed to the mountainous south, where High German is spoken

by the end of 1800s, the czars no longer sounded so friendly, so welcoming, so accommodating. The Germans were to be "Russianized." Gone was their exclusive German language in their schools, their military exemptions. The lands were filled to their capacity to farm it by hand, and what land remained was expensive

Wagner/Waggoner : German/English Occupation Name...One who drove the high-sided carts or wagons carrying produce between manors was called the Waggoner in England, and the German counterpart is Wagner. Among the Pennsylvania Germans who were among the first non-English settlers of the American colony, Wagner also denoted a wagon-maker. According to one survey, Wagner is 116th on the list of most-frequently found surnames in America.

   Research Notes:

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   Marriage Information:

Johann married Anna Maria BACH, daughter of Check Records BACH and (CHECK RECORDS BACH), in 1811. (Anna Maria BACH was born in 1788 in Neeweiler, Weissenburg, Elsass and died on 12 Feb 1829 in Franzfeld, Odessa, Ukraine, USSR.) The cause of her death was child birth.

   Marriage Information:

Johann also married Elizabetha (WAGNER) about 1830. (Elizabetha (WAGNER) was born in 1791-1808 in Selz, Ukraine, USSR.)