Johann Siegmund Mann jr.

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Johann Siegmund Mann jr.
Hermes in the family coat of arms of Johann Siegmund Mann from 1840

Johann Siegmund Mann jr. (* April 2, 1797 ; † February 1, 1863 in Lübeck ) was a Lübeck businessman and politician . He founded the Lübeck branch of the Mann family .

Life

Johann Siegmund Mann was the son of the merchant Johann Siegmund Mann (1761–1848), who immigrated to Lübeck from Rostock, and his wife Anna Catharina Grotjan (1766–1842). He took over the Joh. Siegm company founded by his father in 1790 . Mann, commission and forwarding business and handed them over to his son, the later Senator Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, in 1862 . He was a member of the Lübeck mountain drivers and their senior man .

In 1840 he was elected head of the Lübeck poor house in St. Anne's monastery . In this context, the coat of arms, which is still kept in the St. Annen Museum, was created. In 1844 Johann Siegmund Mann took over the consular mission of the Netherlands in Lübeck.

He became a member of the constituent Lübeck citizenship in 1848/1849 , but was no longer a member of the constituted citizenship in 1849/1850 .

He died shortly after the business was handed over to his son and was buried in the Burgtorfriedhof .

His grandson, the writer Thomas Mann , took him as a model for the figure of the consul Johann (Jean) Buddenbrook in his 1901 novel Buddenbrooks .

family

Johann Siegmund Mann jr. was married to Emilie Wunderlich (1806–1833), daughter of Senator Thomas Günther Wunderlich . This marriage had five children, three of whom died early and only two lived to be of adulthood:

  • Johann Siegmund Mann (1827–1884), businessman
  • Paul Günther Mann (1830–1901), farmer

In his second marriage he married Elisabeth Marty (1811–1890), daughter of the Evangelical Reformed Lübeck merchant Johann Heinrich Marty, in 1837, and thus found social connections with the very influential merchant families of this community in Lübeck . The five children came from this second marriage:

Literature (selection)

  • Alken Bruns: man family. In: Lübeck résumés. Neumünster 1993, p. 237 (p. 238 f.)
  • Lübeck State Calendar to the year 1849. Lübeck 1849, pp. 19–21
  • Michael Stübbe: The Manns. Genealogy of a German family of writers . Degener & Co, 2004, ISBN 3-7686-5189-4
  • Hans Wißkirchen: The Mann family . Rowohlt, 1999, ISBN 3-499-50630-0
  • The Manns - Genealogy of a German family of writers. In: German Family Archives . Volume 145, Degener & Co. , Insingen 2005, ISBN 3-7686-5188-6
personal data
SURNAME Mann, Johann Siegmund jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Man, Johann Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1797
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1863
Place of death Lübeck