Soltner (Katharinenstadt-1)*
Johannes Friedrich Soltner, a baker, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 100.
Friedrich Soltner and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka027.
The 1767 census records this family as being from Grünberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Ka027.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 297.
Brent Mai