Johann Georg Hergert, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Anna Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
Georg Hergert (24), a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Eva Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 179. They had arrived in Norka on 26 August 1767.
Georg Hergert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr124.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Georg Hergert came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hergert family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 620.
- 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): Nr124.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 277.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4967.
Brent Mai