Correspondence with Löwenstein, Leo

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/925
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110659
Dates
14 Apr 1954 - 16 Jun 1956
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Nation Europa

Biographical History

Dr Leo Löwenstein (1879-1956) was a Jewish-German physicist and chemist. The World War I veteran, who invented artillery sound ranging, had founded the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (RjF; Reich Federation of Jewish Front Soldiers) in 1919. In 1943, Löwenstein was deported to the Theresienstadt (Terezin). Upon his liberation he emigrated to Sweden and later to Switzerland.

See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 245.

Scope and Content

Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence regards a request by German right wing magazine Nation und Europa to Löwenstein to author an article for one of its issues. Contained are transcripts of the according correspondence, reflecting Löwenstein’s conservative positions. Furthermore, Löwenstein and Alfred Wiener discuss some personal matters as well as the option of writing an eyewitness account for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

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People

  • Löwenstein, Leo

Subjects

Places

  • West Germany [1949-1990]
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