Dit(t)mar / Dit(t)mer*
Johann Jacob Dittmar, son of Hans Michael & Catharina Barbara Dittmar, was baptized 16 December 1706 in Mainstockheim. He first married Maria Barbara Pries on 4 November 1733 in Seckenheim. She died in Ladenburg on 17 March 1750.
He remarried in Ladenburg on 9 June 1750 to Anna Maria Ritter, daughter of Jacob & Maria Magdalena Ritter. Anna Maria Ritter had been baptized in Ladenburg on 6 December 1716.
The baptisms of two of their children are recorded in the parish register of Ladenburg: (1) Johann Martin, baptized 20 June 1753; and (2) Anna Elisabetha, baptized 8 May 1757.
It is from Ladenburg that the Ditmar family moved to Jütland - Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein).
From there they immigrated to Russia, arriving in Balzer on 28 August 1765. The family is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.
Son Martin Ditmar is recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh003 along with his daughter and her family.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob Eichhorn, & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Steinmeier, 2012): 381.
- 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): Dh003.
- Parish register of Ladenburg.
- Parish register of Mainstockheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 75.
Gerhard Lang
Wayne Bonner
Brent Mai