Júlia da Silva Bruhns

Júlia da Silva Bruhns (14 August 1851, Paraty – 11 March 1923, Weßling) Raised Roman Catholic, she was the daughter of a Lübecker farmer Johann Ludwig Herman Bruhns and his wife Maria Luísa da Silva, herself the daughter of a Portuguese immigrant and landowner and his wife, who was of Criollo descent. when she was 17, she was married to 29-year-old senator and grain merchant Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, a man from a wealthy hanseaten family.

In 1910, da Silva Bruhns' daughter Carla, an actress, died by suicide from cyanide poisoning while visiting her mother in Bavaria. In her final years, da Silva Bruhns moved frequently and lived mostly in hotels. On 11 March 1923, da Silva Bruhns died in a hotel room in Weßling with her three sons at her side. Despite her prolonged experience with xenophobia in Germany and her longing to return to South America, she was never able to return to Brazil.