Trivia

Brother of writer Heinrich Mann, Julia Elizabeth Mann (1877-1927), Carla Augusta Mann (1881-1910), Carl Viktor Mann (1890-1949).

Father of Erika Mann(writer), Golo Mann and Klaus Mann (writer), Monika Mann (1910-1992) and Michael Thomas Mann (1919-1977).

Since 1922 he defended democratic freedom and fought against the upcoming national socialism in Germany.

Received the Nobel prize for literature in 1929.

Father of Elisabeth Mann-Borgese.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 317-333. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Father-in-law of W.H. Auden

Is portrayed by Armin Mueller-Stahl on The Manns (2001).

Father-in-law of actor Gustaf Gründgens from 1926 to 1929.

His maternal grandmother was Portuguese: Maria Senhorinha da Silva (1829-1856).

Grandfather of Fridolin Mann, born 1940, and Anthony Mann, born 1942 (Michael's sons), Angelica, born 1940, and Domenica, born 1944 (Elizabeth's daughters).

Son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (1840-1891) and Júlia da Silva Bruhns (1851-1923).

From 1936 to 1944 Mann and his family were citizens of Czechoslovakia.

Conferred an honorary doctor's degree by the University of Bonn in 1919 (deprived in 1937, and restored in 1946).

His books were among those burned by the Nazi regime.

Became seriously estranged from his brother Heinrich Mann, during WW1 and for several years afterwards, because of Heinrich's anti-war, pro-democratic tendencies. After the assassination of Walther Rathenau by German right-wingers, Thomas's politics moved gradually towards the liberal position for which he is now famous.