MIKOLAJEWSKI and BARTSCHKE – looking for parents and siblings

Maria Mikolajewski , Donnerstag, 12.11.2026, 17:28 (vor 7 Stunden, 25 Minuten)

Hello everyone,

I am researching my grandfather's family and would be grateful for help, especially from members with access to the SGGEE indexes for 1900–1918. I do not speak German, so I am posting in English. Replies in German are very welcome; I will translate them.

What is documented (we hold copies of the documents):

1. Rudolf MIKOLAJEWSKI, born 27 Feb 1905, son of Heinrich Mikolajewski and Karoline née SCHMIDT. Source: certificate from the pastor of Heimtal parish, issued at Staraja Buda on 15 Aug 1915, No. 6709, addressed to the Kurnoje volost administration. The place of birth is not stated. In 1928 he lived in Beresowo-Hat. He was shot in Kharkov on 8 Feb 1938 (victim of the repressions).

2. Ernestine BARTSCHKE, born 12 Aug 1907 in Blumental (Swetjanka), Shitomir parish register 1907, No. 697. Parents: Gottfried Bartschke and Maria née HÜBNER.

3. Marriage of Rudolf Mikolajewski and Ernestine Bartschke: registered 25 June 1928 in Beresowo-Hat (No. 19), church wedding in Shitomir parish. In the marriage certificate both fathers (Heinrich Mikolajewski and Gottfried Bartschke) are marked with a cross, so both had died by 1928.

4. Son Wladimir, born 11 March 1930 in Beresowo-Hat, and a younger son, Artur.

After 1938 Ernestine took the children to Kazakhstan: first to the Akmolinsk area, where Artur stayed with relatives, then to Issyk near Alma-Ata.

Family tradition says that Heinrich Mikolajewski owned a caramel (candy) factory in Volhynia, which the Soviet authorities later took from his heirs. We do not know where it was.

My questions:

a) Are there entries in the Heimtal registers or the SGGEE index for other children of Heinrich Mikolajewski and Karoline Schmidt (Rudolf's siblings), or for Heinrich's death?

b) Where and when did Heinrich Mikolajewski and Karoline Schmidt marry? I did not find them in the Volhynian Marriages indexes for 1876–1885. Geneteka lists a Henryk Mikołajewski born in 1855 in the Lutheran parish of Maślaki (parents Andrzej and Justyna Welke). Could this be the same man?

c) Who were the siblings of Ernestine Bartschke (born 1907), and where did the Bartschke and Hübner families of Blumental go after 1935/36? Is there a connection to Ernestine Bartschke, wife of Gottfried Liske (thread "Ahnen suche" / WEISS aus Beresowo Hat)?

d) The 1916 expropriation list for Blumental has, under No. 2678, "Bartzke? Barnke?, Maria, father's name Ludwig". Could this be Maria Bartschke née Hübner?

e) Does anyone know a source that mentions a Mikolajewski candy or caramel factory in Volhynia (address books, factory lists)?

I would be grateful for any hint and can share copies of the documents.

Best regards,
Maria Mikolaevskaya
(great-granddaughter of Rudolf Mikolajewski)