| Władysław Loewenhertz | |
| Citizenship: | Australian |
| Birth Date: | 10 March 1916 |
| Birth Place: | Vienna, Austria |
| Death Place: | Melbourne, Australia |
Władysław Loewenhertz was a male former Polish international table tennis player and Australian national and state table tennis champion .[1]
He was born in 1916 in Vienna, Austria, to Markus Loewenhertz and Hermina Weisglas. At a young age, his family moved to his father's hometown of Lwow, Poland, where spent the rest of his childhood and young adulthood.
He won a bronze medal at the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Alojzy Ehrlich and Simon Pohoryles for Poland.[2] [3]
Along with his teammates they were the first Polish medal winner at the Championships.[4] He played for the local Jewish sports club Hasmonea Lwów.
Just prior to the onset of World War II, in July of 1939, he departed Poland for a new life in Australia, where he adopted the name of Walter Lowen. His table tennis achievements in Australia included winning: the 1948 Australian open singles championship,[5] the 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950 Victorian Open single championship and, late in his life inductions into: Table Tennis Victoria's hall of fame (open division) in 2015 and as the Macabi Victoria's hall of fame in 2000.[6]