[1] He was born in 1916 in Vienna, Austria, to Markus Loewenhertz and Hermina Weisglas.

He won a bronze medal at the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Alojzy Ehrlich and Simon Pohoryles for Poland.

Just prior to the onset of World War II, in July 1939, he departed Poland for a new life in Australia, where he adopted the name of Walter Lowen.

His table tennis achievements in Australia included winning: the 1948 Australian open singles championship,[5] the 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950 Victorian Open single championship and, late in his life inductions into: Table Tennis Victoria's hall of fame (open division) in 2015 and as the Macabi Victoria's hall of fame in 2000.

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