Johannes Jäger was a soldier in the Napoleonic Army that invaded Russia.
He was an infantryman and was captured by the Russians.
Milovidov records that as of 1814 his father, mother, a brother, and two sisters were still living the the German village of Obermeinau.
He was settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar.
Milovidov records that Johannes Jäger came from the German town of Obermeinau in the region of Westfalen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Jäger 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, #5)
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