Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann

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Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann
Hermes in the father's family coat of arms from 1840
Gravesite of the Mann family in the Burgtorfriedhof in Lübeck ; the grave slab bears the vital dates of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann

Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (born August 22, 1840 in Lübeck ; † October 13, 1891 ibid) was a Lübeck businessman , senator and father of the two writers Thomas and Heinrich Mann. Thus he was the grandfather of Golo Mann , Klaus Mann , Erika Mann , Michael Mann , Monika Mann and Elisabeth Mann Borgese as well as Leonie Mann .

Life

Thomas Johann Heinrich (called Henry ) was the second child of Johann Siegmund Mann jr. (1797–1863) and Elisabeth Marty (1811–1890). He had a total of four siblings: Elisabeth (1838–1917), Johannes (1842–1844), Olga Marie (1845–1886) and Friedrich (called Friedel; 1847–1926).

In 1862 he took over the Joh. Siegm company founded by his grandfather in 1790 . Man, commission and shipping business . His father died just a month after the company was handed over, and he was now solely responsible for the business and thus determined the fate of the family.

In 1869 he married Julia da Silva-Bruhns (1851–1923). Her father was the Lübeck merchant Johann Hermann Ludwig Bruhns (1821-1893) who had emigrated to Brazil. Her mother, Maria Luiza da Silva, came from a wealthy, Portuguese-born family of plantation owners . From this marriage five children emerged, the two later writers Heinrich (1871-1950) and Thomas (1875-1955) and Julia (called Lula; 1877-1927), Carla (1881-1910) and Victor (1890-1949).

He was the Royal Dutch Consul since 1864 . In 1869 Mann was elected to the Lübeck citizenship and was a member of the citizens' committee there from 1873 to 1875. In 1877 he was elected Senator for Economics and Finance by the Senate of the Free Imperial City of Lübeck . He was thus the most important politician after the mayor and the rank of minister of a German federal state. Senator Mann lived in Breite Strasse No. 38. The house was demolished in 1904 and the location is now marked by the Thomas Mann stone by the sculptor Ulrich Beier .

The chairman of the Senate Commission, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Hermann Lange, and Ernst Stiller, as chairman of the Grain Traders Association, went to the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Germany to inspect the port facilities there in terms of their suitability and costs for traffic Bremen .

On October 13, 1891, he died of bladder cancer . He was buried in the family grave in the Lübeck Burgtorfriedhof , which later also became a scene in Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks .

In his will , he arranged for the company to be liquidated and the house to be sold, leaving his family with a considerable fortune, although only the interest was paid out.

His wife left Lübeck after his death and moved to Munich with the three younger children . She died in Weßling in 1923 .

With the granary Die Eiche , a granary he built for the Mann company in 1873 still stands in its halfway original condition at the Lübeck city harbor.

See also

literature

  • Alken Bruns: Mann family in: Lübecker Lebenslaufen , Neumünster 1993, p. 237 (p. 238 f.)
  • Michael Stübbe: The Manns; Genealogy of a German family of writers . Verlag Degener & Co., Insingen near Rothenburg odT 2004, ISBN 3-7686-5189-4 .
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Verlag Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, No. 1010

Individual evidence

  1. New port facilities. , in Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 32, number 52, edition of April 20, 1890, p. 199.

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