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Polish table tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Władysław Loewenhertz was a male former Polish international table tennis player and Australian national and state table tennis champion .[1]
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, 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]
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