Johann Adam Fritz was born on 4 July 1742 in Sulzfeld.
In 1762, Adam Fritz, a day laborer (Tagelöhner), immigrated first to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 12 June 1762. They swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 19 July 1762.
The parish register of Sörup records on 15 March 1763 the baptism of Johann Georg Fritz, son of Philipp [sic] Adam & Anna Maria Fritz. His death is later recorded on 29 March 1763 (age 19 [sic] days).
On 1 October 1764, Adam Fritz (age 21) and his wife Anna Maria (age 20) are recorded in the Danish colony of Westscheide.
They are last recorded among the Danish colonies on 22 April 1765.
They joined the migration to Russia where they settled in the colony of Rosenheim on 15 March 1766.
Adam Fritz, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann Peter, age 4; Justina, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 47.
In 1790, Peter Fritz and his wife moved from Rosenheim to Saratov.
The 1767 census records that Adam Fritz came from the German village of Sulzfed in the "Herzogtum Württemberg."
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-423.
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Rm31, Rm53, Mv2427.
- Parish register of Sörup [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 73.
Gerhard Lang
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner
Johann Adam Fritz recorded on a marker in Schleswig commemorating the Volga Germans who had settled there before immigrating to Russia.
Source: Jorgelina Fischer.