Hanseaten (class)
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The Hanseaten is a collective term for the hierarchy group consisting of elite individuals and families of prestigious rank who constituted the ruling class of the free imperial city of Hamburg, conjo
Reliefs of coats of arms of the three Hanseatic (sister) cities
Johann Hinrich Gossler of the Hanseatic Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty, who married Elisabeth Berenberg and became owner of Berenberg Bank
First Mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard
Christian Adolph Overbeck, mayor of the Free Imperial and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, son of Eleonora Maria Jauch (drawing by Johann Friedrich Overbeck)
Thomas Mann
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Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and nov
Hanseaten (class)
…regarded the (rural) nobility outside the city republics as inferior to the (urban and often more affluent, and in their own view, cultivated) Hanseaten. Thomas Mann, a member of a Lübeck Hanseatic family, portrayed this class in his novel Buddenbrooks (1901), principally for which he received the 1929 Nobel Prize…
Mann in 1929
House of the Mann family in Lübeck (Buddenbrookhaus), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum
The family lived in this villa in Munich from 1914 to 1933. Partially destroyed in World War II, it was later reconstructed.
The family country house in Bad Tölz, Bavaria