Leon lowenstein biography
- Correspondence with Löwenstein, Leo
Coverage Dates:
- 14 April 1954 - 17 May 1956
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/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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- This material has been digitised. It is available on Wiener Digital Collections. Use the link in Related Webpage(s).
Leo Löwenstein
Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Carl-Friedrich Hubertus Georg Eduardo Paolo Nickolos Franz Alois Ignatius Hieronymus Maria, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (30 September 1966 – 24 April 2010), better known by his racing alias Leonhard "Leo" Löwenstein, was a German prince and endurance race driver participating in the VLN.
Career
Löwenstein drove his first race 2006 in the ADAC "Chevy" Egons 500 in the Nordschleife GP in a Porsche 911 at the Nürburgring.
Death
During the third round of the VLN-long-distance championship of 2010, his Aston Martin V8 Vantage overturned and hit a guardrail and the rear of his car went up in flames. Efforts to extricate him from the wreck were futile, and despite instant rescue efforts, he died at the accident scene of smoke inhalation.
He is the seventh person to have died during the German Endurance Championship since 1977.
His funeral took place on 30 April 2010 at the family tomb at the Engelberg Monastery in Großheubach. The burial was preceded by a funeral service at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Kleinheubach.
Personal life
Löwenstein was the eldest son and heir to Alois-Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, who became Hereditary Prince in 1990 upon the death of his grandfather. He was a great-great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria through descent from her eldest daughter, the Victoria, Princess Royal (German Empress) (although as heir to the Roman Catholic branch of the Princely House of Löwenstein he may have been barred by the Act of Settlement from eligibility for succession to the British throne).
He married Stephanie Sophie Marie Coletta von Brenken (born 1970) in a civil ceremony on 16 May 1998 at Kleinheubach Castle, and in a religious ceremony on 8 August 1998 at Erpernburg Castle. The couple h When Leon Lowenstein was born on 14 June 1883, in Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States, his father, Morris Lowenstein, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Sloman, was 33. He married Gloria Elizabeth Jones on 29 July 1937, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1934 and lived in New York City, New York, United States in 1950 and New York, United States in 1976. He died on 15 April 1976, at the age of 92.
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