Peter Löw (später: Lynn)

Born:	02-15-1919
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Peter LOEW (later: LYNN), born on February 15^th, 1919 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Arthur Loew (manufacturer) and lived in Vienna 3^rd district, Neulinggasse 10. He graduated from high school ("Bundesgymnasium Wien 3") in summer 1937 and enrolled finally in fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School of the university of Vienna. He was fianally enrolled in the spring term 1938 in the 1^st year of studies and took courses in pharmaceutics and chemistry. After the takeover of power of National-Socialism in 1938 he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason without a chance to graduate. He emigrated to Italy in 1938, further on to Switzerland in 1939 and to the USA in 1940. He joined the US-Army in July 1943 until 1947, became an officier in military intelligence and was based in Berlin from 1945-1947. Back in New York he succeeded in finishing his studies and graduated in psychology at Columbia University in New York in 1949 (B. Sc.). He started to study psychology at the University of Zurich/Switzerland in 1950 (Dr. phil. in 1953) and started his studies in psychoanalysis at the C.G. Jung-institute. In New York he was co-founder of the New Yorker C.G. Jung Institute and war married to Hildegard Lynn, with whome he hat a daughter, Roxane. He lived and worked in New York since 1953 with a private practice in psychoanalysis.

He deceased on October  4^th, 2012.

Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 432, 433; Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; E-mails of Peter Lynn from 2002 and 2003; Austrian Heritage Collection at Leo Baeck Institute New York: AHC 1813, AR 10378; obituary in The New York Times of June 9th, 2013.

Herbert Posch