- 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 Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (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.
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