Georg Krüger [sic] (age 29), his wife Anna Maria (age 30), and sons (Georg, age 3; Peter, age ½) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in the city of Schleswig on 4 July 1761. They pledged allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 24 July 1761.
The parish register of St. Michael's Church in Schleswig records on 7 August 1763 the baptism of Mattias Krieger, son of Jürgen & Anna Maria Krieger.
On 11 August 1763, the Krieger family is recorded on the farmstead "Friderichs Lust" in the Danish colony of Friderichsfeld.
The death of Anna Maria Krieger, wife of Jürgen Krieger, is recorded on 2 February 1765 in the parish register of St. Michael's Church in Schleswig.
They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 12 January 1765.
Georg Krieger and his family joined the migration to Russia and settled in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim on 15 March 1766.
Georg Krieger, his wife Elisabeth, children by his 1st wife (Georg, age 10; Mattias, age 6), and son by his 2nd wife (Georg Michael, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 58.
Matthias Krieger from Rosenheim is recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk37.
The 1767 census records that Georg Krieger came from the German village of Krizing in the Markgrafschaft Baden-Durlach.
- 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-894.
- 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): Rm36, Sk37.
- Parish register of St. Michael's Church in Schleswig.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 76.
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