Johann Pommer, a farmer, and his wife Theresia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Johannes Pommer and his wife Theresia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Rohleder on 28 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 50 along with the orphaned Anna Margaretha Korger (age not recorded). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Pommer and Korger families, but they did arrive in Oranienbaum on the same ship.
Widow Theresia Pommer is recorded on the 1798 census of Rohleder in Household No. Rl24 along with her daughter Susanna and family.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Pommer came from "Deutsch Böhmen" (German Bohemia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Pommer family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Rl24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 60.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6142.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7600-7601.
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