VGI Updates

Georg Christian Seger was born in 1713 in Suckow (bei Parchim) [Germany]. He is recorded on a list of students made 15 April 1733 who were enrolled during the winter semester of 1732-1733 at the University of Rostock.

Georg Christian Seger, a rector, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Jakob Rudolph; Katharina Christina) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 aboard the Russian packet-boat named Lebed (Swan) under the command of Lieutenant Timofey Yelchin.

The Rev. Johann Heinrich Seydlitz was born 16 August 1889 in Schaffhausen. He served in Paulskaya from 1918-1927. He served in Zürichtal (Crimea) from 14 August 1927 to 1933. He was arrested in 1934. In 1937 he was in Feodosia.

Pastor Seib Johann Caspar Seiffert was from Waltershausen b. Gotha. He served the congregation in Grimm from 1786 until his death in 1804.

Pastor Seib was born 26 December 1872 in Bergdorf (Odessa District) and died 12 January 1940. He was ordained 31 May 1898. He served the congregations in Messer from 1899-1909, in Beideck from 1900-1903, in Warenburg from 1909-1918, in Saratov from 1918-1924, and in Taganrog from 1925-1931. In 1931, he was banned to the Aural Sea. He was free in 1934-1935 in Taganrog. In 1936, he went to Siberia and returned to Taganrog in 1937. In 1938, he went missing in Kazakhstan.

Father Sebastiani served the Kamenka Parish from 1788 to 1792.

Pastor Schwartz was born 10 November 1867 in Pölwe/Livland and died 19 March 1935 in Krassnyi-Kut.

He was ordained on 4 September 1894.

He served as associate pastor in Beideck in 1895. From 1901-1906, he was pastor in Weimar, from 1906-1912 in Hoffental, and beginning in 1914 in Schöntal.

Pastor Johann Conrad Schwabenland, son of Friederich and Maria Christina (Kinzel) Schwabenland, was born 11 November 1871 in Straub, Russia. In December 1891, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Fresno, California. Following seminary study in Chicago, he was ordained on 16 August 1898 in Glen Ullin, North Dakota. He married Dorothea Miller of Portland, Oregon, on 27 May 1903.

Pastor Schwabenland served the following congregations:

Ronald Richard Schueler, son of William Conrad Schueler & Anne Schmidt, was born 18 April 1948 in Catherine, Kansas. He played baseball for Hays High School (Hays, Kansas) and Fort Hays State University before signing as a pitcher with the Atlanta Braves in 1967. He was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1973. He played one season with the Minnesota Twins (1977) and then went to the Chicago White Sox where he was relief pitcher for a season and a half before becoming pitching coach. He also was pitching coach with the Oakland Athletics and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Pastor Friedrich August Wilhelm Schrötter served the Volga German congregation in Warenburg from 1826 to 1833. He then served a parish in Zlatoust, a city in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, from 1834 to 1851.

Pastor Schortmann served the congregations in Riebensdorf from 1789-1796 and Strelna/Pe. from 1813-1814.