Last week, I've had a great meeting with my relatives who are descendants from Jacob Schochenmeier (1896-1937). That Jacob, who had been shot to death in the time of Stalin's repressions for being Baptist and German at once, is son of Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1862-????), so to say a partriarch of Russian Schochenmeiers. Gottlieb had had 5 sons:
1. Gottlieb (1883 or 1886, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia -1969, Karaganda, Kazakhstan);
2. Michael (1891, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1942, Neu-Rohrbach, Ukraine);
3. Jacob (1896, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1937, Caucasus, Republic of Georgia);
4. Wilhelm (1897, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1973, Radolfzell, Germany);
5. Adolf (1899, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - about 1918, Ukraine, killed by Bolsheviks).
All of them are on the same generations' level like the Michael's children (Friedrich (1888) and Jacob (1890)) or Jacob's children (Jacob (1887), Paul (1897), Samuel (1897), Emanuel (1898), David (1900)).
I am from the line of the 4th son Wilhelm. It was interesting to get to know that they called every ancestor of each line with "vetter" (it's like "father"). Wilhelm-vetter or Vetter Wilhelm has become later through cosy names Willy and Willysch as "Lysch-vetter" (should be spoken out as "lush-fetter").
But the most amazing fact was that I had found my Wilhem on the photo of my relatives. It was taken in Switzerland in the 50s or 60s.
Wilhelm is standing behind the Family of the Krafts. It seems to be that the man in the center is Mr. Kraft and his wife is to be related to Schochenmaiers, but the Problem is that nobody knows in what way))) Two women standing in the foreground to the right do look like the Schochenmaier ones, at least their faces.
I hope I will find out who they were.
Thank you for your attention.
1. Gottlieb (1883 or 1886, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia -1969, Karaganda, Kazakhstan);
2. Michael (1891, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1942, Neu-Rohrbach, Ukraine);
3. Jacob (1896, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1937, Caucasus, Republic of Georgia);
4. Wilhelm (1897, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1973, Radolfzell, Germany);
5. Adolf (1899, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - about 1918, Ukraine, killed by Bolsheviks).
All of them are on the same generations' level like the Michael's children (Friedrich (1888) and Jacob (1890)) or Jacob's children (Jacob (1887), Paul (1897), Samuel (1897), Emanuel (1898), David (1900)).
I am from the line of the 4th son Wilhelm. It was interesting to get to know that they called every ancestor of each line with "vetter" (it's like "father"). Wilhelm-vetter or Vetter Wilhelm has become later through cosy names Willy and Willysch as "Lysch-vetter" (should be spoken out as "lush-fetter").
But the most amazing fact was that I had found my Wilhem on the photo of my relatives. It was taken in Switzerland in the 50s or 60s.
Wilhelm is standing behind the Family of the Krafts. It seems to be that the man in the center is Mr. Kraft and his wife is to be related to Schochenmaiers, but the Problem is that nobody knows in what way))) Two women standing in the foreground to the right do look like the Schochenmaier ones, at least their faces.
I hope I will find out who they were.
Thank you for your attention.
