The surname Maurer is not actually found in Balzer because it is the maiden name of one of the original settlers: Jacobina Maurer. She was born 15 February 1734/1735 in Kirchardt, Baden, a small village in the hills to the east of Heidelberg, and baptized there on 19 February 1734/1735. She married Christoph Karle. [See Karle Family.]
They arrived in Balzer on 28 August 1765.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Maurer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Kaiser, Darrel P. Origin & Ancestors : Families Karle & Kaiser of the German-Russian Volga Colonies (Corpus Christi, TX: Darrel P. Kaiser, 2006), 390.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 74.
Darrel P. Kaiser