Johann Peter Breitinger, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughter Anna Maria Barbara (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767. Peter Breitinger (age 28), his daughter Maria Barbara (age 4), his [new] wife Susanna (age 28), and her son Jakob [Wilberger] (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 29.
In 1795, widow Gertrude Klebenspies from Pfeifer married Johann Breitinger in Semenovka.
Peter Breitinger and his [new] wife Gertruda Kleb [sic] from Pfeifer are are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se10 along with his step-son Jakob Wilberger, son of the deceased Andreas Wilberger, and his family.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Peter Breitinger came from the German region of Erbach. The 1767 census records that Peter Breitinger came from the German village of Schönberg in the region of Erbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Breitinger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 763.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Se10, Mv2274.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 185.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6102.
Brent Mai
Wadim Eichmann
Entry on the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Peter Breitinger and his family (No. 6102).
Source: Brent Mai.