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The 19th century caused a great emigration to the United States. Most of the emigrants left their home countries legally because of misery or love of adventure. The others fleed from the severe Prussian military service.
There are known 33 families or single persons from Doessel who emigrated between 1832 and 1886. Among them are also seven Jewish names.
After the foundation of the German Kaiserreich in 1871 Bismarck strengthened the influence in the conquered, former polish areas by immigration of German settlers. From 1896 four Doessel families felt attracted to the province of Posen until after the First World War this area again fell to the new-founded polish state. Now in Silesia farmsteads were established for resettlers from the Posen area or new settlers from West Germany. From 1926 four Doessel families went to the Upper Silesia. After the Second World War they were expelled from their new homes.
Some people from Doessel were luckier when they decided
to resettle in Lower Bavaria. Between 1913 and 1933 11 families purchased
farmsteads in the fertile Gaeuboden area near Straubing on the river Danube.
As an example we mention the family of farmer Johannes Bloemeke who left
Doessel in 1933 and purchased an estate in the Bavarian village Ringkofen.
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