Hanss Balthasar Brenckmann, son of Hanss Georg and Barbara Brenckmann, was born in Kleingartach on 14 October 1720. He married there on 5 August 1760 to Rosina Barbara Oppenländer, daughter of Johann Michael Oppenländer and Rosina Goldner. She was born 9 December 1732 in Kleingartach.
The family moved to Denmark (now Schleswig-Holstein). Two daughters were born there: Rosina Barbara (baptized 28 September 1762) and Magdalena (baptized 7 April 1764). The family settled on the Bunter Hof farmstead in the colony of Friedrichsanbau on 9 November 1764.
They did not stay long there, as they are recorded as having deserted the colony on 1 May 1765. They immigrated to Russia, arriving in the colony of Shcherbakovka on 27 April 1766. They are recorded in Shcherbakovka on the 1767 Census in Household No. 41. The surname has become Brickman(n) over time.
- Clausen, Otto. Chronik der Heide- und Moorkolonisation im Herzogtum Schleswig, 1760-1765 (Husum: Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1981): 767.
- LDS International Film No. 1184796.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 255.