Reichert (Balzer)
Johann Philipp Reichert, son of Georg & Maria Elisabeth Reichert, was born 9 June 1756 in Neuburg am Rhein.
Philipp [Reichert] (age 5) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) along with Mattias Kisselmann and his wife Elisabeth arriving in the city of Schleswig on 4 July 1761.
They were last recorded in the Danish colonies on 12 January 1765. They joined the migration to Russia and settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 28 March 1766.
Johann Philipp [Reichert] (age 12) along with Mattias Kisselmann, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and son Mattias (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 22. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Kisselmann and Reichert families.
Philipp Reichert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Balzer in Household No. Bz040.
Johann Philipp Reichert died in Balzer on 13 February 1823. His wife Anna Katharina Stohr died in Balzer on 19 June 1813.
- 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-816.
- 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): Bz040.
- Parish register of Balzer.
- Parish register of Neuburg am Rhein.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 78.
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner