There are three Vogt families from Leutershausen who traveled first to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) and then to Russia. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research, but they are believed to be father and sons.
(1) Johann Adam Voigt [sic] from Württemberg immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 1 May 1762.
Adam Vogt, a farmer, his wife Eva, and children (Anna, age 30; Sebastian, age 17½; Barbara, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Sebastian Vogt (age 17), a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Anton on 1 September 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 62.
Sebastian Vogt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An13.
Johannes Vogt, son of Sebastian Vogt, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Anton in Household No. 46.
Sebastian Vogt, son of Sebastian Vogt, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Anton in Household No. 92.
In 1794, Johann Adam Vogt moved from Anton to Lauwe.
Adam Vogt from Anton and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Lauwe in Household No. Lw34.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Vogt came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Sebastian Focht [sic] came from the German region of Kurpfalz, Oberamt Heidelberg.
(2) Johann Michael Voigt, a farmer, was born in 1736 in Leutershausen.
The family immigrated first in 1760 to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), arriving in Fredericia on 1 May 1760.
He married in Schriesheim in 1760 to Anna Margaretha Stapp. She had been born in 1735.
The parish register of St. Michael's Church in the city of Schleswig records in 1764 the marriage of Michael Ulrich Vogt to Anna Margaretha Schultz, daughter of Daniel Schultz.
The parish register of Friderichshaab [Denmark] records the baptisms of two daughters born to Michael Voight [sic]: (1) Anna Catharina, baptized 6 June 1762; (2) Anna Susanna, baptized 29 November 1763.
They joined the migration to Russia in 1766. Michael Vogt, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughters (Maria, age 6; Katharina, age 4; and Susanna, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Röder.
They settled in the colony of Anton on 1 January 1767. Michael Vogt, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Anna Barbara, age 7; Anna Katharina, age 4; Johann Peter, age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 13.
The parish register of Sarepta records that a Barbara Feest [sic] from Anton received permission to relocate to Sarepta on 11 March 1782. She is believed to be the Anna Barbara Vogt recorded above.
Michael Vogt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An03 along with daughter Katharina Vogt, her husband Eberhard Heintz from Kutter, and their family.
The Eichhorns record that Michael Vogt came from the German village of Leutershausen. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Vogt came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Michael Focht [sic] came from "Oberamt Heidelberg in the Kurpfalz."
(3) Johann Nikolaus Vogt, a farmer, and his family immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), arriving in Fridericia on 1 May 1760.
They joined the migration to Russia. Nikolaus Vogt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Katharina (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Nikolaus Vogt, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and daughters (Katharina Barbara, age 7; Charlotta, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 26. They had arrived in Dietel on 1 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Vogt came from the German region of the Pfalz. The Eichenborns and the 1767 census record that Nikolaus Vogt came from the German village of Leutershausen in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving lines of this Johann Nikolaus Vogt family among the Volga German colonies.
The surname is recorded on various documents as Focht, Voigt, and Vogt.
- 1834 Anton Census (Households No. 46, 92).
- 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-1727, B-1729, B-1731.
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga.
- 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): An03, An13, Lw34, Mv0022.
- Parish register of Friderichshaab [Denmark].
- Parish register of Sarepta.
- Parish register of St. Michaelis Church in Schleswig [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 55, 69, 290.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #305, #2766, #2767.
Gerhard Lang
Karl Becker
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner