Hans Georg Pletzinger, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johann Georg Pletzinger, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 40. They had arrived in Keller on 12 May 1767.
Georg Pletzinger is recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk18.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Georg Pletzinger came from the German region of Ellwangen. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Pletzinger came from the German village of Oberhofen in the Mainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Pletzinger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 133.
- 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): Nk18.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 350.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #790.
Brent Mai