An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:
Rudolf Krüger, a day laborer (Tagelöhner), from Wörlitz.
A list of Rudolf Krüger's debts recorded in Wörlitz in 1766 indicates that he was born in Brandhorst.
Rudolf Krüger [sic], a farmer, his wife Johanna, and children (Gottfried, age 16¼; Christoph, age 14; Maria, age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
Rudolph Krieger, a farmer, and his children (Christoph, age 15; Maria Christina, age 13) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 74 along with a note that wife Johanna died there on 20 August 1767. They had settled in Jost on 5 July 1767.
Christoph Krieger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb53.
Christoph Krieger is recorded on the 1811 census of Laub in Household No. 66.
Christoph Krieger and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Laub in Household No. 24.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Rudolph Krüger came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Rudolph Krieger [sic] came from the German village of Oranienbaum in the Dessau region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Krieger family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Laub Census (Household No. 66).
- 1834 Laub Census (Household No. 24).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 168.
- 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): Lb53.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1108.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 211.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1080.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 90.
Brent Mai
List of those who immigrated to Russia from Wörlitz in 1766 recording their debts along with their place of birth.
Source: Karl Becker.