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==Early life==

Born in [[Lübeck]], as the oldest child of Senator Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, [[grain trade|grain merchant]] and finance minister of the [[Free City of Lübeck]], a state of the [[German Empire]], and [[Júlia da Silva Bruhns]]. He was the elder brother of the writer [[Thomas Mann]] with whom he had a lifelong rivalry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hmann.htm |title=Heinrich Mann |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904060528/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hmann.htm |archive-date=September 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The [[Mann family]] was an [[affluent]] family of grain merchants of the [[Hanseatic League|Hanseatic]] city of Lübeck. After the death of his father, his mother relocated the family to [[Munich]], where Heinrich began his career as a ''freier Schriftsteller'' (free novelist).