Franz Bernhard Hölz, son of Peter Hölz & Maria Margaretha Echternach, was born 29 August 1773 in Oberdiebach b. Bacharach (Germany).
He married Wilhelmina Nabel who had been born in 1783. They immigrated to Russia in 1814. Pastor Hölz was ordained in St. Petersburg. His first parish was Slatoust (1814-1816). He then moved to the Volga region where he served the parish of Rosenheim from 1816-1820, and the congregations in Frank and Hussenbach from 1820-1837.
Johannes (John) Hoelzer was born on 6 August 1868 [tombstone records 1869] in Norka, the son of Johann Georg Hölzer (born 1840 in Norka) and Christina Jörg who was born in Norka in 1845. The Hoelzer family immigrated to the United States in 1886.
John married Margaretha Giebelhaus on 2 November 1890 in Nebraska. Margaretha was born in Norka on 6 August 1871.
Pastor Franz Hölderhof was born 4 March 1711 in Lennep b. Remscheid (Germany). He served the parish in Sarepta from 1780 to 1781.
Pastor Eugen Friedrich Georg Hinsch, son of Dr. Friedrich Hinsch & Margaretha Henning, was born 21 September 1820 in Riga.
He received his theological education at the University of Dorpat, and was ordained in 1845.
He served the parish in the Volga German colony of Galka from 1849 to 1856 and the parish in Smolensk from 1857 to 1869.
He died in Smolensk on 9 February 1869.
Pastor Philipp Jakob Hiemer was born 9 July 1770 in Rottenacker, Ehingen, Württemburg. He served in Galka from 1796-1804, and in Grimm from 1804 until his death there on 23 November 1814.
Father Peter Heut was born in 1894 in Sewald. He was ordained in 1917 and served several parishes in the area of Novocherkassk.
He served the parish of Petersheim before 1927, when he went to the Crimea. He was arrested there in 1932 and accused of participation in the Volga German clergy conspiracy.
Following a tribunal before the secret police, he was sentenced on 18 January 1933 to 10 years of prison at the Medveshya Gora Belbaltlag near Finland. In April 1936, a letter was received from him at the Polish Red Cross in Moscow.
Pastor Leonhard Karl Wilhelm Hesse was born 11 Febriary 1856 in Sarata (Bessarabia). He served the congregation in Tomsk-Barnaul from 1884-1885. He was in Galka from 1886-1888; in Penza from 1888-1914; and in Tomsk from 1914-1923.
Pastor Hesse died 26 March 1933 in Saratov.
The Rev. Johann Georg Herwig, son of teacher Conrad H. Herwig and Elisabeth (surname unknown), was born in Aue near Eschwege (Germany) on 11 July 1714 and died in Norka on 29 April 1782. He married in Willershausen, Hessen (Germany) on 12 February 1742 to Sophie Elisabeth Stippus. She was born in Willershausen (Germany) on 29 October 1710.
He started his theological studies on 25 September 1736 at the seminary in Marburg. From 1741 to 1756, he served as pastor in Willershausen near Herleshausen.
Father Herrmann was born in an undetermined colony on the Wiesenseite. He served the parishes in Schuck and Zug.
Pastor Martin Gottfried Hermann served the congregation in Yagodnaya Polyana from 1820 to 1821.