Georg Friedrich von Hildner, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Georg Friedrich von Hildner, a captain in the Prussian military (preussischer Hauptmann), and his wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 1.
In 1773, Friedrich von Hildner and his family moved from Boisroux to Saratov.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Georg Friedrich Hildner came. The 1767 census records that Georg Friedrich von Hildner came from the German village of Kulz bei Oberviechbach [Oberviechtach].
There are no known surviving male lines of this von Hildner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 865.
- 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): Mv0283.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 162.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7031.
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