Johann Heinrich Reinecke, a single physician (Arzt), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Johann Reinecke is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 23 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 225.
Johann Heinrich Reinecke, a single surgeon (Chirurgus), is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 198 along with a note that he moved to Moscow in 1782.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Johann Heinrich Reinecke came from the German village of Boizenburg in the Mecklenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reineke family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 198).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 889.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 321.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7269.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8640.
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