Hoffmann (Dietel-1)
Michael Hoffmann, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Katharina (age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 on a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Nikolai (St. Nicholas) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on 1767 census in Household No. 12.
In 1792, Michael Hoffmann (junior?) moved from Dietel to Kutter.
The widow of Michael Hoffmann (senior?) is recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt72.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Hoffmann came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Michael Hoffmann came from the German village of Linz in the Darmstadt region.
- 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): Dt72, Kt21, Mv295.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 285.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2453.
Brent Mai