Władysław Loewenhertz was a male former Polish international table tennis player and ładysłAustralian national and state table tennis champion .

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.

Władysław Loewenhertz

Along with his teammates they were the first Polish medal winner at the Championships. He played for the local Jewish sports club Hasmonea Lwów.

Władysław Loewenhertz

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, 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.

Władysław Loewenhertz

See also

List of table tennis players

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

Polish male table tennis players

Jewish table tennis players

20th-century Polish Jews

World Table Tennis Championships medalists

1916 births

2011 deaths

Place of birth missing