| Born: | 07-01-1908 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Heinrich LÖWY, born on July 1st, 1908 in Neunkirchen, Lower Austria/Austro-Hungarian Empire (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Baden, Lower Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), was the son of Bernhard Löwy (1878–1940) and his wife Helene Löwy, née Friedmann (1890–1942). His father was employed as cantor and shochet by the Jewish religious community of Baden since 1924. From 1932 on he also taught religion in the community. The family lived in Baden, Wassergasse 16.
Heinrich Loewy had already studied at the University of Vienna until spring term 1933 and restarted after this interruption - he had worked as a religious teacher at the Jewish Community of Moedling - in fall term 1937/38 with his studies. Finally he was enrolled in spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 3rd year of his studies and took courses in psychology, pedagogy and history.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
Until the Anschluss in 1938, Heinrich Löwy also worked as a religion teacher for the Jewish Community of Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, where his brother Leopold (Leo) Löwy was cantor.
Heinrich Löwy was able to emigrate to Palestine [Israel] together with his younger brother Leopold (b. 1915), his sisters Therese (b. 1913) and Selma (b. 1919) escaped to Great Britain.
His father died in Vienna in 1940, his mother Helene Löwy was deported to the death camp Maly Trostinec on May 6th, 1942 and murdered there on May 12th, 1942.
Little is known about Heinrich Löwy's further life at present.
He is commemorated at the University of Vienna in the "Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938" (2009) and at the "Memorial to the History Students and Teachers of the University of Vienna Expelled under National Socialism | When Names Shine" (2022).
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937–1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 433; about his father Bernhard Löwy: Jewish History Baden: Shochet; POSCH/FUCHS 2022, 123
Katharina Kniefacz, Herbert Posch
