Lilli Henoch

Lilli Henoch

Stolperstein in front of house at Treuchtlinger Straße 5, Berlin-Schöneberg
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	October 26, 1899 Königsberg, East Prussia (Germany)
Died	September 1942 Riga Ghetto, Latvia
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Discus, long jump, shot put, 4 × 100 meters relay
Club	Berlin Sports Club; Bar Kochba Berlin
Achievements and titles
National finals	German national shot put champion (1922–25) German national discus champion (1923 & 1924) German national long jump champion (1924) German national 4 × 100 meters relay champion (1924–26)
Highest world ranking	Discus world records (24.90 meters, 1922; 26.62 meters, 1923) Shot put world record (11.57 meters, 1925) 4 × 100-meters relay record (50.4 seconds, 1926)

Lilli Henoch (October 26, 1899 – September 1942) was a German track and field athlete who set four world records and won 10 German national championships, in four different disciplines.

Henoch set world records in the discus (twice), the shot put, and the 4 × 100 meters relay events. She also won German national championships in the shot put four times, the 4 × 100 meters relay three times, the discus twice, and the long jump. She was Jewish, and during the Holocaust she and her mother were deported and machine-gunned to death by the Nazis.

Henoch was Jewish, and was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (Germany). Her father, a businessman, died in 1912. She and her family moved to Berlin, and her mother subsequently remarried.

Henoch set world records in the discus, shot put, and—with her teammates—4 × 100 meters relay events.

Between 1922 and 1926, she won 10 German national championships: in shot put, 1922–25; discus, 1923 and 1924; long jump, 1924; and 4 × 100 meters relay, 1924–26.

After World War I, Henoch joined the Berlin Sports Club (BSC), which was approximately one quarter Jewish. She missed a chance to compete in the 1924 Summer Olympics, because Germany was not allowed to participate in the Games after World War I. In 1924, she trained the women's section in Bar Kochba Berlin. She was a member of the BSC hockey team, which won the Berlin Hockey Championship in 1925.

She set a world record in discus on October 1, 1922, with a distance of 24.90 meters. She bettered this on July 8, 1923, with a throw of 26.62 meters. She won the German national championship in discus in 1923 and 1924, and won the silver medal in 1925.

In 1924, Henoch won the German Long Jump Championship, having won the bronze medal in the event the prior year.