# Siegismund Gosch — Buddenbrooks character guide

> Siegismund Gosch in Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Broker Gosch, Herr Gosch, old Gosch

**First appearance:** 0001-buddenbrooks

## Who they are

A dramatic, somewhat sinister broker and translator who admires the Buddenbrook family.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/buddenbrooks_se/chapters/part-iv-iii)

The broker, who dramatically positions himself as a tragic hero ready to face the 'outraged people,' finding perverse exhilaration in the crisis.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/buddenbrooks_se/chapters/part-iv-iv)

Mentioned by the Consul as a 'wonderful man' with poetic eyes, whose aesthetic interpretation of the revolution the Consul recounts.

### [Family Fortunes and Personal Defenses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/buddenbrooks_se/chapters/part-iv-x)

The only person in town who shares Thomas Buddenbrook's taste for modern, satiric writers.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/buddenbrooks_se/chapters/part-vii-iii)

The broker is a fervent, almost fanatical supporter of Thomas Buddenbrook, motivated in large part by his bizarre, distant obsession with Gerda Buddenbrook.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/buddenbrooks_se/chapters/part-ix-iv)

The broker who facilitates the sale. He is obsequious yet malign, first rhapsodizing to Thomas about ideals before getting down to the business transaction.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/buddenbrooks_se/chapters/part-x-vi)

A late guest at the cure, suffering from tremors; curses and drinks rum punch; morosely comments on business being in the hands of rivals like Strunck and Hagenström.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/buddenbrooks_se/chapters/part-xi-i)

The broker who attempts to buy the Buddenbrook house, his old age 'illumined' by the monumental transaction, though he is ultimately outmaneuvered.

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