Krieger (Bauer)
Kaspar Krieger (age 36), a weaver (Leinweber), and his wife Anna Katharina Gottfried (age 22) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 4 September 1765. A note on this list records that wife Anna Katharina Gottfried died before copulation ("Braut vor der Copulation gestorben").
Johann Kaspar Krieger, a farmer, and his [new] wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 20 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 4.
The 1765 Worms list records that Kaspar Krieger came from the German village of Pfäfflingen. The 1767 census records that Johann Kaspar Krieg[er] came from the German village of Flieth [sic] in the region of Etting [ Öttingen].
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 120 (#021-022).
- 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): Br65.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 116.
Brent Mai