Mannheim

American  

[man-hahym, mahn-hahym] / ˈmæn haɪm, ˈmɑn haɪm /

noun

1. Karl 1893–1947, German sociologist.

2. a city in SW Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers.

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Mannheim ¹ British  

/ ˈmanhaim, ˈmænhaɪm /

noun

1. a city in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar: one of Europe's largest inland harbours; a cultural and musical centre. Pop: 308 353 (2003 est)

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Mannheim ² British  

/ ˈmanhaɪm /

noun

1. Karl (karl). 1893–1947, Hungarian sociologist, living in Britain from 1933: author of Ideology and Utopia (1929) and Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction (1941)

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Example Sentences

Many Germans "had hoped for much faster change," political scientist Marc Debus of Mannheim University told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

At an appearance at the University of Mannheim in southwest Germany, Breuer, in his gray-jacketed dress uniform, sprang from his chair, transforming what had been an avuncular presence into one of studied intensity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Claassen worked with Ralph Hertwig, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and Jutta Mata, an associate research scientist at the Institute and Professor for Health Psychology at the University of Mannheim.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

But Mannheim didn’t think of generations as concrete groupings that emerge at regularly spaced intervals, and he certainly wasn’t proposing that we could understand individual behavior or consumption trends through this framework.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

They paired off and traveled by train to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna, Freiburg, Saarbrücken, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe, where they mailed the leaflets from undisclosed locations.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti