Life
Katia was born in Feldafing near Munich, into one of the wealthiest families in Germany. She was the grand-daughter of German-Jewish industrialist Rudolf Pringsheim and the grand-niece of the banker Hugo Pringsheim. At the age 21, in the fall of 1904, she aborted her studies of physics and mathematics on the request of her mother and aunt, to marry the writer Thomas Mann on February 11, 1905, in Munich. She continued her studies as a guest student for another four semesters. Katia and Thomas Mann had six children (see section "Children" infra). Katia later converted to her husband's Lutheranism.
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