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Johann Immel was born in Erlenbach, Pfalz, son of Michael and Ottilia Immel. He married Magdalena Helbling. He moved to Russia and settled asa colonist in Landau. He was Beresan District Mayor from 1825 to 1834. He was an intelligent, energetic man but was sometimes to strict. Johannes lived to quite an old age; near the end he suffered considerably from rheumatism and gout. source is "The German Colonies In South Russia 1804 to 1904" volume 2 by Conrad Keller
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Johannes Christian and his wife, the former Katherina Helbling (a descendant of an old Swiss family which had emigrated to Alsace and then the Rhinepfalz), became some of the first settlers of Landau, in the Beresan region of what is today the Ukraine but at the time was part of Russia. At the time it had 234 men and 236 women. It eventually grew to include a parish school, town hall, the district office and the Beresan University, as well as a post office and bank. All of his six children Nikolaus, Christian, Margaretha, Kaspar, Josef and Elisabeth were born here, as were several generations of his descendants.
Before the youngest, Elisabeth, was born, he became chief mayor of the Beresan district, in which capacity he served from 1825 to 1834. (He wasn't the only mayor in the family -- his elder brother, Wendelin, became mayor of the old home town, Erlenbach; other Immels were also mayors of various villages in the Rheinpfalz.) This was more than an honorary function. During his term in office a series of disasters befell Beresan, including illness, cattle disease, grasshoppers, and a famine in 1833. To help his people survive the famine, he sent his son Nikolaus, who was 19, and one Johannes Mosbruker to Poland to purchase cheap grain for food.
Described as an intelligent, energetic man but sometimes too strict, he was credited with great prudence in expending the loans advanced from the government and in distributing many gifts from private citizens in Odessa and surrounding towns. He received a gift of 75 rubles in from the Fursorge Committee as a gift for his services in 1830.
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