Johannes Heckel was born about 1790 in the village of Sundhausen in the region of Alsace.
He was a soldier in the 8th Hussar Regiment of Napoleon's Army. He fought against the Russians and was captured.
Milovidov records that as of 1814 he had three brothers still living in the village of Sundhausen.
He was settled in the Volga German colony of Schäfer and was assigned to the household of August Schmidt.
Milovidov records that Johannes Heckel came from the German village of Sundhausen in the region of Alsace.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heckel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Belousov, S.V. "Prisoners of war of Napoleon's army in the Volga region: the arrangement, content, relationships with the local population." Bulletin of the Samara State University, No. 1 (Samara, Russia: Samara State University, 2006): 48-55.
- Milovidov, B. P. "Prisoners of War of the Napoleonic Army in the Saratov Colonies in 1813-1820: New Documents." (p. 34, #33)
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