Johann Sittinger [sic], a single blacksmith (Schmied), arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Heinrich Sitzinger, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 12 February 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.
In 1795, the marriage of Susanna Margaretha Sitzinger, daughter of Heinrich Sitzinger, to someone in Dietel is recorded on the Movement Table that accompanies the 1798 census of Dönhof. She actually married Gottlieb Gergins in Kratzke (which was part of the Dietel parish).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Heinrich Sitzinger came from the German region of Hannover.
There are no known surviving male lines of this 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): 98.
- 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): Kr12, Mv0503.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 355.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #460.
Brent Mai