Johann Mann (businessman)

Johann Bernhard Mann (born December 1, 1791 in Rostock ; † October 12, 1871 there ) was a German businessman and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Johann Mann was born as the son of Johann Siegmund Mann. His father, who came from a Mecklenburg merchant family based in Parchim and Grabow , later moved the family seat to Lübeck . Johann Siegmund Mann jr. was his brother.

He learned the business in the house of a wholesaler friend of his father's in Hamburg . As an employee, he trained in Stockholm and in 1816 took over his father's business in Rostock. He had previously participated in the Wars of Liberation as a volunteer, most recently as an officer in the Neumärk Dragoon Regiment .

From 1827 until his death he was honorary church leader of Rostock's Marienkirche .

Johann Mann was elected for the 6th constituency of Güstrow of Mecklenburg-Schwerin as Johann Pogge's successor in the National Assembly, to which he belonged from January 3, 1849 to May 30, 1849. Before that, he was a deputy of the Rostock merchants' observer of the National Assembly and also served as an expert on economic issues. While his predecessor Johann Pogge remained non-attached, Johann Mann belonged to the Linke Centrum Augsburger Hof . He is not recorded as a speaker in the shorthand reports of the National Assembly.

family

Johann Bernhard Mann was a great-uncle of the Lübeck poet brothers Thomas and Heinrich Mann .

literature

• Jürgen Borchert: Off to Frankfurt: Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania parliamentarians as members of the Paulskirche 1848/49 , State Center for Political Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 1998, ISBN 3-931185-44-3 .
• Stübbe, Michael: The Manns. Genealogy of a German family of writers. Degener & Co, 2004. ISBN 3-7686-5189-4

Web links

• Literature about Johann Mann in the state bibliography MV