Johann [Georg] Zimmermann, a single miller, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Georg Zimerman [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 2 along with his [new] wife, Anna Michel and her children Anna Maria (age 4) and Konrad (age 2).
They resettled to the colony of Schönchen in 1768.
The widow and sons of Georg Zimmermann are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Households No. Sn37 & Sn39.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Georg Zimmermann came from the German region of Breslau.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 562.
- 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): Sn37, Sn39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 323.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4433.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5926.
Brent Mai