Widower Ludwig Kiebler, a farmer, and his daughter Anna Louisa (age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 22 along with his mother-in-law Katharina Higenbacher. They had settled there on 14 July 1766.
In 1795, Ludwig Kiebler and his family moved from Reinwald to Herzog.
Ludwig Kiebler from Reinwald and his wife Margaretha Lux, widow of Nikolaus Braun from Rohleder, are recorded on the 1798 census of Herzog in Household No. Hr10.
The death of Ludwig Kiebler in 1816 is recorded on the 1834 census of Herzog in Household No. 52.
The 1767 census records that Ludwig Kiebler came from the German village of Neuberg in the Württemberg region.
There are no surviving male lines of this Kiebler family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Herzog Census (Household No. 52).
- 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): Hr10, Mv2421.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 35.
Brent Mai