Johann[es] Achtung, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 20; Maria, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
Johann Achtung, his wife Katharina, and children (Andreas, age 20; Maria Magdalena, age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Anton on 1 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.
Johann Achtung is recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An53 along with his wife Anna Maria [surname not recorded] from Norka.
Daughter Magdalena Achtung is recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn07 along with her husband Georg Gerlach and family.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Achtung was a baker while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Achtung came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this 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): An53, Dn07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 67.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6491.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8583-8586.
Brent Mai