George Strauch, Jr., son of George Sr. & Alma Strauch, was an insurance broker with Aon Corp. (99th Floor – Tower One). He died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001. He had been born on 6 February 1948 in Newark, New Jersey, where many other immigrant families from the Volga German colony of Beideck had settled.
Bishop José Weimann was born 6 April 1892 in the Volga German settlement of Hinjo in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He was ordained on 10 August 1917 as a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. On 8 September 1940, he became the Bishop of Santiago del Estero in Argentina. He died in office on 30 March 1961.
His Volga German ancestors come from the colony of Kamenka.
Willard Schmidt, son of Raymond Schmidt & Dorothy Leikam, was born 29 May 1928 in Hays, Kansas. He died 22 March 2007 in Newcastle, Oklahoma.
He was a professional baseball player, pitching 5 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals and and 2 seasons for the Cincinnati Reds.
His Volga German ancestors come from the colony of Katharinenstadt.
Sister M. Liliosa Wiesner served as the tenth Mother General of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis (1948-1960). She was born Mary Wiesner, daughter of Jacob J. Wiesner & Barbara Ann Ingenthron, on 5 May 1887 in Kansas. She died in 1974 in Peoria, Illinois.
Her Volga German ancestors come from the colony of Kamenka.
Boris Rauschenbach was a Soviet physicist and rocket engineer. He developed the theory and instruments for interplanetary flight control and navigation.
Dr. Rauschenbach was born 18 January 1915 in St. Petersburg where his Volga German father had migrated to be the manager of a leather factory. He died on 27 March 2001 in Moscow.
His Volga German ancestors come from the colony of Katharinenstadt.
Óscar Manuel Ibáñez Holzmann, born August 8, 1967 in Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina, is a professional soccer player who plays with the Peruvian National Team.
His mother's ancestors are from the Volga German colony of Preuss.
Ron Spomer was born 4 March 1953 and grew up in rural South Dakota.
He is the author of 6 books & 100s of articles relating to the outdoors, particularly hunting. He is the star of Orion Entertainment’s TV shows “Winchester's Whitetail Revolution” and “Winchester's World of Whitetail."
His Volga German ancestors come from the colony of Bangert.
Argentine pop singer Sergio Denis was born Héctor Omar Hoffmann, son of Feliciano Hoffmann and María Esther Fenzel, on 16 March 1949 in San José near Coronel Suárez in Buenos Aires Province.
He died 15 May 2020 in Buenos Aires after a long illness following a fall in March of 2019.
His Volga German ancestors come from the colony of Dehler.
Lawrence Welk was an American musician who hosted the television program The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His ancestors came from the German colonies near Odessa in Ukraine. He is not a descendant of the Volga German colonists.
Born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., he was an American musician known as John Denver. His ancestors come from the German colonies near Odessa in Ukraine. He is not a descendant of the Volga German colonists.