Heinrich Mann

Heinrich Mann (1871 to 1950), whose full name was Luiz Heinrich Mann, was a German-American writer best known for his sociopolitical novels. From 1930 until 1933 he served as president of the fine poetry division of the Prussian Academy of Arts. He criticised the growing Fascism and Nazism fiercely, and that opposition forced him to flee Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933. He was the elder brother of the writer Thomas Mann. The source lead is brief, so this entry records his name, dates, the description of him as a writer of sociopolitical novels, the academy presidency, his flight from Germany and his family link to Thomas Mann, and leaves his individual novels and later life to fuller sourcing.