Axt (Bauer)*
Ludwig Friedrich Axt, a surgeon (Chirurgus), is recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. He had arrived in Worms on 12 September 1765.
Johann Friedrich Axt, a physician (Arzt), and his [new] wife Maria Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 23 along with his stepsons, Johann Heinrich & Johann Konrad Schreimann.. They had arrived in Bauer on 20 July 1766.
Ludwig Friedrich Axt and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br64.
The 1765 Worms list records that Ludwig Friedrich Axt came from the German village of Schleiz. The 1767 census records that Johann [sic] Friedrich Axt came from the German village of Schleiz in Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Axt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 126 (#319).
- 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): Br64.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 121.
Brent Mai