Johann [Hartmann] Freihöferner [sic], a weaver (Weber), his wife Elisabeth, and son Johann (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Hartmann Pfeifner [sic], a weaver (Weber), his wife Elisabeth, and son Johannes (age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 37. They had arrived in Müller on 16 August 1767.
The death of Johannes Freihöfer, son of Hartmann Freihöfer, in 1824 is recorded on the 1834 census of Müller in Household No. 83.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Freihöfer came from the German region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Alsfeld.
[Plehve's translation of the 1767 census erroneously records this surname as Pfeifner.]
There are no known surviving male lines of this Freihöfer family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Müller Census (Household No. 83).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 494.
- 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): Ml21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 184.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3881.
Brent Mai