Fritzi Loewy
Friederike (Fritzi) Löwy (* 1910 in Vienna ; died 1994 ) was an Austrian swimmer .
She was a member of the Jewish sports club SC Hakoah Vienna . Löwy won 25 freestyle championships and in 1927 set the European record for the 200 meter crawl . In the same year she and her club colleague Hedy Bienenfeld won silver and bronze at the European Championships in Bologna . It was only after more than 70 years that an Austrian swimmer, Maxim Podoprigora , succeeded again at European championships.
At the end of 1939 she fled to Italy, after the German Wehrmacht invaded in September 1943, she managed to escape to Switzerland. After the war she emigrated to Australia, but later returned to Vienna, where she worked as a secretary.
literature
- Vida Bakondy: montages of the past. Flight, exile and the Holocaust in the photo albums of the Viennese Hakoah swimmer Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994) . 284 pages. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2018
- Joseph Siegman: Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Washington DC 2000.
- Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver: Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports. New York 1965.
Individual evidence
- ^ Archive of silent contemporary witnesses , review by Gregor Auenhammer, Der Standard daily newspaper , Vienna, March 27, 2018, p. 27
Web links
- Documentary film about the athletes of the Hakaoh
- Story told - anti-Semitism before 1938 (Fritzi Löwy)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwy, Fritzi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löwy, Friederike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |