Johann Heinrich Göttmann was born 20 April 1740 in Nieder-Kinzig, Reichelsheim, Hessen, Germany. He was the son of Johann Peter Göttmann and Elisabeth Margaretha Hoffmeister, who had married in Kirch-Brombach on 3 August 1739. The ancestors of Johann Peter Göttmann can be traced back to the 1600s in the small towns in the Reichelsheim area, including Neider-Kinzig, Unter-Ostern, Pfaffen-Beerfurth, and Kirch-Beerfurth.
Heinrich Göttmann arrived in Frank on 1 September 1767 as a single man. Heinrich is recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household #98 living with Johannes Schäfer and his wife.
One Göttmann family moved from Frank to Brunnental in 1863.
New Findings about the Immigration to Russia – 1766, by Ella Gieg, circa 2008 (translation by Richard A. Kraus)
Reichelsheim Parish Records (LDS Film #1195016)
Familienbuch Reichelsheim, 1643-1875, Volumes 1 and 2, by Heiner Wolf
Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 435.
Pleve, Igor. Gettman Family Chart.
