Husband (family)
The Mann family is a German literary family that descends from the Lübeck Senator Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann , the head of an old Hanseatic merchant family from the Lübeck patriciate .
His sons Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann and members of the next generation became writers; they themed among others, the history of the German middle class and educated middle class , and its decadence in numerous, often autobiographical literary works, which the family itself in the public eye as a symbol and late representatives this same layer.
history
The history of the Mann family can be traced back to Nuremberg in the 16th century . The clearly verifiable line of ancestors begins with the merchant Johann Mourer Mann from Parchim, born in 1611 . However, a direct line between this and the Nuremberg line cannot be proven beyond doubt. Johann Mourer Mann's two sons married in Grabow , Mecklenburg , where the older of them was elected mayor in 1694 and the younger councilor in 1690 . Johann the Elder, born in 1635, married Elisabeth Marnitz, and Johann the Younger, born in 1644, married her younger sister Anna. Both were daughters of councilor Ebel Marnitz, members of the long-established and wealthy Marnitz merchant family.
The youngest brother's son, Siegmund Mann, moved to Rostock in 1713 . One of his sons, Joachim Siegmund, learned the trade of brewer and businessman. His only son, Johann Siegmund, came to Lübeck in 1775 as a tradesman. This, great-great-grandson of Johann Mourer Mann, founded the Johann Siegmund Mann, commission and freight forwarding business in Lübeck in 1790 . His son Johann Siegmund Mann jun. , the grandfather of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, married Elisabeth Marty as the second wife in 1837, the daughter of a wealthy Swiss merchant who was an active member of the respected Reformed community in Lübeck. The Mann family came into contact with the south for the first time since their possible origins in Nuremberg. In 1842 he acquired the house at Mengstrasse 4, built in 1758 (today known as the “ Buddenbrookhaus ”). A family grave of the Mann family is located in the Burgtorfriedhof in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , the birthplace of Thomas and Heinrich Mann.
The son of Johann Siegmund Mann Jr., Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann , took over the company in 1862. In 1869 he married Julia da Silva-Bruhns (1851–1923), the daughter of a Lübeck merchant who emigrated to Brazil and the daughter of a Portuguese-born plantation owner . In 1877 he was elected Senator for Economics and Finance of the city state of Lübeck. This made him the most important politician in the city after the mayor and the rank of minister of a German federal state . His son Thomas Mann processed the history of the family up to him in the novel " Buddenbrooks " , published in 1901 and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 . Thomas' older brother Heinrich Mann wrote important, often socially critical novels, influenced by the French novel of the 19th century, and was President of the Poetry Section of the Prussian Academy of the Arts .
In 1905 Thomas Mann married Katia Pringsheim from Munich, from the wealthy Pringsheim Jewish merchant family . Of their six children, three also became famous as writers, Erika (1905–1969), Klaus (1906–1949) and Golo (1909–1994), the latter as a qualified historian. Thomas Mann and his entire family emigrated, like his brother Henry, 1933 in the seizure of power of Hitler abroad and worked from there as much acclaimed representatives of the political and literary emigrants during the exile literature . Golo Mann was the only one to return to Germany, became a professor of political science and one of the most famous German historians of the 20th century.
Tribe list
Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann | |
Heinrich and Thomas Mann | |
Katia man | |
Erika Mann | |
Klaus Mann | |
Golo man |
- Johann Siegmund Mann (1761–1848) - Lübeck businessman and Anna Catharina Grotjan (1766–1842)
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Johann Siegmund Mann jr. (1797–1863) - Lübeck businessman and Emilie Wunderlich (1806–1833), second marriage from 1837 to Elisabeth Marty (1811–1890)
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Marie Elisabeth Amalia Mann (1838–1917) and Ernst Elfeld (1829–1912) - Hamburg merchants; second marriage with Gustav Haag - Esslinger Kaufmann
- Olga Catharina Elisabeth Elfeld
- Siegmund Christian Carl Elfeld
- Alice Haag
- Ewald Siegmund Henry Haag
- Johannes Mann (1842–1844)
- Olga Marie Mann (1845–1886) and Gustav Sievers - merchant in Saint Petersburg
- Friedrich Wilhelm Lebrecht Mann (1847–1926)
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Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (1840–1891) - Lübeck businessman and Julia da Silva-Bruhns (1851–1923)
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Luiz Heinrich Mann (1871–1950) - writer and Maria Kanová (1886–1947), divorced in 1930, second marriage in 1939 to Nelly Kröger (1898–1944)
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Carla Maria Henriette Leonie Mann (1916–1986) and Ludvík Aškenazy (1921–1986) - writers
- Jindřich Mann-Aškenazy (born 1948) - director
- Ludvik Mann-Aškenazy (born 1956) - filmmaker
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Carla Maria Henriette Leonie Mann (1916–1986) and Ludvík Aškenazy (1921–1986) - writers
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Paul Thomas Mann (1875–1955) - Nobel Prize for Literature and Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim (1883–1980)
- Erika Mann (1905–1969) - writer, cabaret artist and Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963) - actor, director; second marriage to Wystan H. Auden (1907–1973) - poet
- Klaus Mann (1906–1949) - writer
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Gottfried Golo Mann (1909–1994) - historian, writer
- Hans Beck-Mann (adopted son) (1936–1986)
- Monika Mann (1910–1992) - writer and Jenö Lányi (1902–1940) - art historian
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Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) - ecologist, writer and Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882–1952) - literary scholar
- Angelica Borgese (born 1940) - physicist
- Dominica Borgese (* 1944) - biologist
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Michael Thomas Mann (1919–1977) - musician, literary scholar and Gret Moser (1916–2007)
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Fridolin "Frido" Mann (* 1940) - psychologist, writer and Christine Heisenberg (daughter of Werner Heisenberg )
- Stefan Mann (* 1968) - economist and agricultural scientist and Kristina Zschiegner (* 1964)
- Lukas Mann (* 1994)
- Julia Mann (* 1996)
- Konstantin Mann (* 1998)
- Stefan Mann (* 1968) - economist and agricultural scientist and Kristina Zschiegner (* 1964)
- Anthony Mann (* 1942)
- Raju Mann (adopted daughter) (* 1963)
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Fridolin "Frido" Mann (* 1940) - psychologist, writer and Christine Heisenberg (daughter of Werner Heisenberg )
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Julia Elisabeth Therese Mann (1877–1927) and Josef Löhr (1862–1922) - bank directors
- Eva Maria Elisabeth Löhr (1901–1968) and Hans Bohnenberger (1901–1989) - bank clerk
- Rosa Marie Julia Löhr (1907–1994) - horticultural technician and Friedrich Alder (1914–1942) - gardener
- Ilse Marie Julia Löhr (* 1907) - infant sister
- Carla Augusta Olga Maria Mann (1881–1910) - actress
- Karl Viktor Mann (1890–1949) - economist and Magdalena Nelly Kilian (1895–1962)
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Luiz Heinrich Mann (1871–1950) - writer and Maria Kanová (1886–1947), divorced in 1930, second marriage in 1939 to Nelly Kröger (1898–1944)
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Marie Elisabeth Amalia Mann (1838–1917) and Ernst Elfeld (1829–1912) - Hamburg merchants; second marriage with Gustav Haag - Esslinger Kaufmann
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Johann Siegmund Mann jr. (1797–1863) - Lübeck businessman and Emilie Wunderlich (1806–1833), second marriage from 1837 to Elisabeth Marty (1811–1890)
Literature (selection)
- Marianne Krüll : In the network of magicians . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-11381-4
- Hans Wißkirchen : The Mann family . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-50630-0
- Michael Stübbe: The Manns. Genealogy of a German family of writers (2004). New edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052256-7
- The Manns - Genealogy of a German family of writers , in: Deutsches Familienarchiv Vol. 145, Degener & Co, Insingen 2005, ISBN 3-7686-5188-6
- Uwe Naumann (Ed.): The children of the Manns. A family album . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-498-04688-8
- Jindrich Mann: Prague, poste restante. An unknown story of the Mann family. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 3-498-04500-8
- Dieter Strauss : Oh man, oh man. Exile experiences of a famous German family of writers . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-60675-9
- Tilmann Lahme : The Manns. Story of a family. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-043209-4
Others
Web links
- Women of the man family on FemBio.org of the Institute for Women Biography Research
- Buddenbrookhaus with time tables (PDF; 42 kB)
- German Thomas Mann Society , Lübeck