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Persoenliche Briefe [Personal Letters, 1862-1950]
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Series[UMA-SRE-20190020] PRIVATE AND PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE OF FRITZ LOEWEAccession[1988.0020] Consolidated Papers of Fritz Philipp LoeweIdentifierUMA-ITE-2019002000001Scope and ContentFolder containing large bundle of personal and professional correspondence from the 1940s with letters from/to Fritz Loewe. Many letters are from individuals seeking assistance to migrate out of Germany in the war and post-war periods and from European meteorologists wanting to reestablish meteorological international contact (which had ceased during the Nazi era). There are also many letters from displaced German Jews (or their families) seeking Loewe's assistance to find a new place in the world post-WWII. Also included are many post-war letters from German-Jews offering information on their experiences during the war, and moving reflections on survival. Also included in this item is a letter from Wegener dated 1862 (this letter, in German, is in microscopic old style handwriting (Deutsche Schrift) and will require further work to decipher and translate).
Topics include: Fritz Loewe assisting Antinazi Alois Skupin and his family migrate from Germany to Australia in 1947; Max Planck; Fritz Loewe's refusal to allow an anti-semitic speaker address The Christian Fellowship at his house in 1947; Reference for Hertha Crohn; German-Jewish refugee William Heimann in Shanghai seeking work; Publications on the value of meteorology; Survival in Nazi-Germany; Information on Jewish scientists who died in Nazi Germany; Letter from Arthur Feige to Fritz Loewe describing (at length) his escape from Auschwitz, his experiences, survival and reflections on Nazi Germany (Feige provides information on Jewish scientists who died during the Holocaust. The letter includes Fiege's CV. Additional correspondence with CSIRO is also included); Walter Kopp being held in an American Camp for civil internees for more than a year since the war ended, unaware of why he is detained, 1946; Hans Schwertfeger's concern for his brother Werner in Munich and reflection on not seeing a future for himself in Australia; Experience of German-Jewish immigrants under Japanese rule; Fritz Loewe's publications in The Geographical Review and The Polar Record; Fritz Loewe's reelection as Honory Vice Preseident of the Victorian Gliding Club; Antarctic pressure waves; educational grading policy and categorisation of handicapped students; Letter from Weickman which lists a large number of he and Loewe's mutual friends and describes their fate during the war; The international scientific network and offers of assistance to German-Jews during the war; Visual observations of an aurora; post-war migration and scientific work opportunities; Loewe publicly criticizing the chancellor of Melbourne University Charles Lowe regarding the Dr Nunn-May case and atomic energy, 1946; The placement of displaced university workers and the work of The Society for the Protection of Society and Learning at Cambridge University; The Meyer family; Reflections on survival and the war ('We learn from the 12 year rule of the Nazis how easy it is for the worst instinctics of mankind to be awoken', 'We old people should have learnt better than to allow ourselves to have become so demolished and exhausted by our own misery that we can no longer find a basis from which we can build positively for the future', 'all we can hope is the future will be better', letter from Dr. W. Martin to Fritz Loewe, 1946; 'Years behind barbed wire have reduced stronger characters than mine to demoralisation', letter from Paul (last name unknown) to Fritz Loewe, 1947); The reasons why Loewe was not selected by the Institut fuer Meereskunde for an expedition in the 1920s; A scientific and peace conference organised by Das Institut fuer Friedenswissenschaft und Voelkerstaendigung in Wien; Prominent Australian scientists; Letters from Hedwig and Rolf Gunold (friends of Loewe's from Berlin) to Loewe regarding post-war life and describing how their son is in a Russian Prisoner of War camp ('What the Nazis did not manage, the Bolsheviks have achieved', letter from Hedwig Seewold to Fritz Loewe, 1948); Some of the scientific men who assisted in bringing Hitler to power; The post war migration of German scientists; Letters from Paul Ramdohr to Fritz Loewe describing (at length) post-war life in Berlin; logistical and financial information relating to immigration into Australia; R. Fick describing the advantages of a racially unified country under Nazism compared to the multicultural nature of life under the Weimar Republic (letter is dated 1935 and is possibly in response to Loewe writing an earlier letter critizing Fick's positions).
Senders/recipients include: Fritz Loewe; Alios Skupin; E. N. da C. Andrade, University College London; William Heimann; E. B. Kraus, CSIR; H. Isreal; Arthur Feiss; E. G. Bowen, CSIR; H. Schwertfeger, University of Adelaide; Gerhard Fuchs; D. C. McKinley; Frank Debenham; R. Duckqorth, The Gliding Club of Victoria; L. Weickmann; Edmund D. Gill; Erwin C. Christiani; Werner Sandner; J. M. Rayner, Commonwealth of Australia; Albert Kolb; Charles Lowe, The University of Melbourne; E. M. Babridge; Dr. Wegener; H. M. Sanger, Temple Beth Israel; Ilse J. Ursell; Ursula Meyer; W. Martin; Kelvin P. Lewis; A. V. Stephens, The University of Sydney; A. Housen; L. C. Kolm; Dr. Lodewyckx; Carl Troll; F. Brady; Mark Ethridge; Leo Waibel, The American Geographical Society; Kurt Eisner; Reginald Orcutt; Ernst H. Lohmeyer; Paul Ramdohr; Dulli (?); Marianne Martin; R. Fick; Hedwig Gunold; Rolf Gunold; Andreas Voeppen; H. Mosse.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2019.0020 Unit 0001
Topics include: Fritz Loewe assisting Antinazi Alois Skupin and his family migrate from Germany to Australia in 1947; Max Planck; Fritz Loewe's refusal to allow an anti-semitic speaker address The Christian Fellowship at his house in 1947; Reference for Hertha Crohn; German-Jewish refugee William Heimann in Shanghai seeking work; Publications on the value of meteorology; Survival in Nazi-Germany; Information on Jewish scientists who died in Nazi Germany; Letter from Arthur Feige to Fritz Loewe describing (at length) his escape from Auschwitz, his experiences, survival and reflections on Nazi Germany (Feige provides information on Jewish scientists who died during the Holocaust. The letter includes Fiege's CV. Additional correspondence with CSIRO is also included); Walter Kopp being held in an American Camp for civil internees for more than a year since the war ended, unaware of why he is detained, 1946; Hans Schwertfeger's concern for his brother Werner in Munich and reflection on not seeing a future for himself in Australia; Experience of German-Jewish immigrants under Japanese rule; Fritz Loewe's publications in The Geographical Review and The Polar Record; Fritz Loewe's reelection as Honory Vice Preseident of the Victorian Gliding Club; Antarctic pressure waves; educational grading policy and categorisation of handicapped students; Letter from Weickman which lists a large number of he and Loewe's mutual friends and describes their fate during the war; The international scientific network and offers of assistance to German-Jews during the war; Visual observations of an aurora; post-war migration and scientific work opportunities; Loewe publicly criticizing the chancellor of Melbourne University Charles Lowe regarding the Dr Nunn-May case and atomic energy, 1946; The placement of displaced university workers and the work of The Society for the Protection of Society and Learning at Cambridge University; The Meyer family; Reflections on survival and the war ('We learn from the 12 year rule of the Nazis how easy it is for the worst instinctics of mankind to be awoken', 'We old people should have learnt better than to allow ourselves to have become so demolished and exhausted by our own misery that we can no longer find a basis from which we can build positively for the future', 'all we can hope is the future will be better', letter from Dr. W. Martin to Fritz Loewe, 1946; 'Years behind barbed wire have reduced stronger characters than mine to demoralisation', letter from Paul (last name unknown) to Fritz Loewe, 1947); The reasons why Loewe was not selected by the Institut fuer Meereskunde for an expedition in the 1920s; A scientific and peace conference organised by Das Institut fuer Friedenswissenschaft und Voelkerstaendigung in Wien; Prominent Australian scientists; Letters from Hedwig and Rolf Gunold (friends of Loewe's from Berlin) to Loewe regarding post-war life and describing how their son is in a Russian Prisoner of War camp ('What the Nazis did not manage, the Bolsheviks have achieved', letter from Hedwig Seewold to Fritz Loewe, 1948); Some of the scientific men who assisted in bringing Hitler to power; The post war migration of German scientists; Letters from Paul Ramdohr to Fritz Loewe describing (at length) post-war life in Berlin; logistical and financial information relating to immigration into Australia; R. Fick describing the advantages of a racially unified country under Nazism compared to the multicultural nature of life under the Weimar Republic (letter is dated 1935 and is possibly in response to Loewe writing an earlier letter critizing Fick's positions).
Senders/recipients include: Fritz Loewe; Alios Skupin; E. N. da C. Andrade, University College London; William Heimann; E. B. Kraus, CSIR; H. Isreal; Arthur Feiss; E. G. Bowen, CSIR; H. Schwertfeger, University of Adelaide; Gerhard Fuchs; D. C. McKinley; Frank Debenham; R. Duckqorth, The Gliding Club of Victoria; L. Weickmann; Edmund D. Gill; Erwin C. Christiani; Werner Sandner; J. M. Rayner, Commonwealth of Australia; Albert Kolb; Charles Lowe, The University of Melbourne; E. M. Babridge; Dr. Wegener; H. M. Sanger, Temple Beth Israel; Ilse J. Ursell; Ursula Meyer; W. Martin; Kelvin P. Lewis; A. V. Stephens, The University of Sydney; A. Housen; L. C. Kolm; Dr. Lodewyckx; Carl Troll; F. Brady; Mark Ethridge; Leo Waibel, The American Geographical Society; Kurt Eisner; Reginald Orcutt; Ernst H. Lohmeyer; Paul Ramdohr; Dulli (?); Marianne Martin; R. Fick; Hedwig Gunold; Rolf Gunold; Andreas Voeppen; H. Mosse.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2019.0020 Unit 0001
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CreatorLoewe, Fritz P.RoleProvenance
Dates
Date1862-1950
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Previous System ID2019.0020.00001Finding Aid Reference1988.0020 Unit 48/5
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Language of MaterialEnglish (eng)German (ger)
Loewe, Fritz P., Persoenliche Briefe [Personal Letters, 1862-1950] (1862-1950), [UMA-ITE-2019002000001]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 03/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/446755