Mann family
The Mann family is a German literary family, the core of the marriage of the later Nobel Prize winner for literature, Thomas Mann, who came from a Lübeck Hanseatic family, with Katia Pringsheim, a descendant of the wealthy Jewish merchant family Pringsheim from Silesia forms.
The history of man family can be traced back to the 16th century after Nuremberg. The clearly detectable line of ancestors begins with the 1611 -born merchant Johann Mourer man from Parchim. A direct line between this and the Nuremberg line, however, is not unequivocally possible. Johann Mourer 's two sons married in Mecklenburg Grabow, where the elder of them was elected mayor in 1694. The son of the youngest brother, Siegmund man pulled 1713 to Rostock. One of his sons, Joachim Siegmund, learned the trade of brewer and businessman. Whose only son, Johann Siegmund came in 1775 as a merchant apprentice to Lübeck. This level Johann Siegmund man, the great-great - grandson of Johann Mourer husband founded in 1790 in Lübeck, the Johann Siegmund man, commission and forwarding business. His son Johann Siegmund jun. , The grandfather of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, married in 1837 his second wife Elisabeth Marty, the daughter of a wealthy, coming from Switzerland merchant who was an active member of the prestigious Reformed church in Lübeck. The family thus first came into contact with the South. The son of Johann Siegmund Mann Jr., Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, took over the company 1862. 1877 he was elected Senator for Economy and Finance of the city-state of Lübeck. He was after the mayor of the most important politicians of the city and in rank minister of a German state.
The family grave of the man family is on the Burgtorfriedhof in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, the birthplace of Thomas and Heinrich Mann.
Master list
Literature (selection )
- Naumann, Uwe (eds.): The children of the artisan. A family album. Reinbek, 2005. ISBN 3-498-04688-8
- Stübbe, Michael: The Manns. Genealogy of a German family of writers. Degener & Co., 2004. ISBN 3-7686-5189-4
- Marianne Krull: In the network of magicians. Fischer, 1999. ISBN 3-596-11381-4
- Hans Wißkirchen: The man family. Rowohlt, 1999. ISBN 3-499-50630-0
- Jindrich man: " Prague poste restante An unknown history of the family man. ". Random House, 2007. ISBN 3-498-04500-8
- The Manns - Genealogy of a German family of writers in German Family Archives Vol 145, Degener & Co., 2005 ISBN 3-7686-5188-6 Insingen.
Others
- Documentary feature film The Manns - Novel of a Century by Heinrich Breloer, 2001.