In July 2019, we discovered the oldest record on Schochenmaiers in the Russian Empire, thanks to which we found out that Christian Schochenmaier, father of Michael (1859-1937) and Jacob (1861-1923) Schochenmaier, the Founding Fathers of the American and Canadian Schochenmaiers,
Today, I'd like to share with you who had baptized Christian Schochenmaier when he was 7 years old. In the records, we may find the name of the Pastor. His name was Johann(es) Doll. This person is well known in the Southern Ukraine among Protestants.
Pastor Johann Doll (1797–1857) was assigned to the Lutheran Church in Nikolayev in 1830. Prior to that, he had served as Pastor in Glückstal by Odessa since 1824. Nikolayev is an administrative center of the region where New Danzig was situated. In 1852, they built the Lutheran "Kirche" which still exists in the today's Ukraine.
Doll, a divisional preacher, made a great contribution to the development of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of the region by his long spiritual efforts, and during the last fifteen years of his activity he managed to collect several thousand silver rubles for church needs.
Johann Doll gave twenty-seven years of his life to the service of God, he was the first Lutheran pastor in the town. He entered the history by creation of the church. In 1857, Pastor Johann Doll died and was buried with honor at the Nikolaev cemetery.
Just imagine, you may see the grave stone of the person who had baptized father of Michael and Jacob Schochenmaiers in 1844.
- was called Christian Franz Samuel
- was born on the 1st September 1837
- was baptized on the 1st October 1844
- lived in New Danzig (South Russia)
Today, I'd like to share with you who had baptized Christian Schochenmaier when he was 7 years old. In the records, we may find the name of the Pastor. His name was Johann(es) Doll. This person is well known in the Southern Ukraine among Protestants.
Pastor Johann Doll (1797–1857) was assigned to the Lutheran Church in Nikolayev in 1830. Prior to that, he had served as Pastor in Glückstal by Odessa since 1824. Nikolayev is an administrative center of the region where New Danzig was situated. In 1852, they built the Lutheran "Kirche" which still exists in the today's Ukraine.
Doll, a divisional preacher, made a great contribution to the development of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of the region by his long spiritual efforts, and during the last fifteen years of his activity he managed to collect several thousand silver rubles for church needs.
Johann Doll gave twenty-seven years of his life to the service of God, he was the first Lutheran pastor in the town. He entered the history by creation of the church. In 1857, Pastor Johann Doll died and was buried with honor at the Nikolaev cemetery.
Just imagine, you may see the grave stone of the person who had baptized father of Michael and Jacob Schochenmaiers in 1844.
