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Fritz Löhner-Beda (24 June 1883 – 4 December 1942), born Bedřich Löwy, was an Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer. Once nearly forgotten, many of his songs and tunes remain popular today. He was murdered in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp.
One of the founding fathers of Hakoah Vienna. Vienna, 2008: A scene from the operetta "Schön ist die Welt" by Franz Lehár and Fritz Löhner-Beda was performed at the reopening of the Hakoah sports ground, which was confiscated by the National Socialists in 1938.
Löhner-Beda was transported to Auschwitz in 1942 and died on 4 December. Over two years after his death, however, his music rang out in triumph when American soldiers liberated Buchenwald, and the surviving prisoners sang his ‘Buchenwaldlied' for the first time as free men. Sources. Hippen, R., 1988.
Oct 5, 2020 · Tragic End. The assertive Zionism of Hakoah Vienna encoutered opposition, and often open anti-Semitism. The club struggled in the 1930s and was totally closed down after Austria was annexed to the Third Reich in 1938. Fritz Löhner-Beda was an obvious target for the Nazis.
Dec 4, 2018 · On October 17, 1942, Löhner-Beda was deported to the Monowitz concentration camp, a sub-camp of Auschwitz. The SS established the camp in October 1942 at the behest of I.G. Farben executives to provide slave labor for their Buna Werke (Buna Works) industrial complex.
BEDA (Fritz Loehner; Fritz Loewy; 1883–1942), Viennese journalist, satirist, and operetta librettist. Born in Wildenschwert, now Usti nad Orlici in the Czech Republic , the Loewy family changed its name to Loehner soon after moving to Vienna.
Sep 23, 2018 · DACHAU/BUCHENWALD—September 23, 2018/1938: Only one day after the “Anschluss” Fritz Löhner was arrested in Vienna and shortly thereafter deported to the concentration camp at Dachau. Löhner was born in Bohemia in 1883. As a young child, he moved with his parents to Vienna.
