Henoch set World records in the Discus, Shot Put, and 4
X 100 Relay
She set her first World record in the
Discus on October 1, 1922, in Berlin,
with a toss of 24.90 meters. Less than a
year later, on July 8, 1923, in Berlin, she
bettered the mark with a distance of
On August 16, 1925, in Leipzig,
Henoch set the World Shot Put Record
with a toss of 11.57 meters.
One year later, she ran the first leg
on the four-some (Henoch-Poting-Voss-
Kohler) that set a new World 4 X 100-
Meter Relay record—50.4 seconds—at
the German tournaments in Köln (Cologne).
Between 1922 and 1926, Henoch
won 10 German national championships in Shot Put, 1922
and 1925; Discus,
1923 and 1924; Long Jump, 1924; and 4
X 100-Meter Relay, 1924 to 1926.
The German government deported
Henoch and her mother on September
5, 1942. They were shot and buried in a
mass grave in the woods surrounding