Ottokar Löwit

Ottokar Löwit (born September 15, 1864 in Brandeis , † March 27, 1945 in Leutershausen an der Bergstrasse ) was a German engineer.

Life

Löwit was the son of a businessman and studied at the technical universities in Prague and Vienna . In 1889 he passed the Austrian state examination for civil engineers. As an engineer in a construction company for special railways in Bern, he was involved in the construction of the Schynige-Platte Railway . In 1893 he married Johanna Hitz (1874–1957), the daughter of the chief engineer of this construction project, and converted to the Protestant faith. The marriage resulted in five daughters. In Basel Löwit became director of the tram. From March 1900 he was director of the tram office in Mannheim , from 1902 he also managed the tram in Ludwigshafen . In 1909 Löwit became a German citizen, in 1911 he became managing director of the Rhein-Haardt-Bahn . During the First World War, Löwit received awards for services at home. In 1921 he became deputy operations manager and board member of the Oberrheinische Eisenbahn AG , and in 1930 he retired.

After 1933 Löwit was exposed to the pressure of the anti-Semitic measures of the National Socialists. However, his Swiss wife protected him from deportation. Löwit died in Leutershausen in 1945. His wife died in 1957, after which a joint grave was laid in the Mannheim main cemetery.

Works

• Report on the introduction of the electric tram in Mannheim , Mannheim: Mannheimer Verein-Druckerei [1900].
• The Rhein-Haardtbahn Mannheim – Ludwigshafen – Bad Dürkheim. In: Elektro Kraftbetriebe und Bahnen , Vol. 12, Issue 21 (July 24, 1914), pp. 405–416.
• 25 years of the Mannheim-Ludwigshafen electric tram , [Mannheim]: [Gengenbach & Mahn] 1925.

literature

• Karl Otto Watzinger: History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650–1945 with 52 biographies , 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1987 (publications of the Mannheim City Archives; 12) ISBN 3-17-009646-X , pp. 124–125.