Lilli Henoch

Memorial plaque , Askanischer Platz 6, in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Stumbling blocks in front of the house, Treuchtlinger Strasse 5, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Lilli Margarethe Rahel Henoch (born October 26, 1899 in Königsberg i. Pr .; Probably murdered on September 8, 1942 in Riga , Reichskommissariat Ostland ) was a German athlete and gymnastics teacher.

Life

Lilli Henoch was the daughter of the Jewish merchant Leo Henoch and his wife Rose. She had an older sister and a younger brother and grew up in Königsberg (East Prussia) and attended grammar school there. Her father died in 1922. At the age of 19 she moved to Berlin and continued her sports training here. After completing her studies as a gymnastics teacher and orthopedist at the Prussian University for Physical Education, she worked as a gymnastics teacher. At the Jewish school on Rykestrasse in Prenzlauer Berg, she found another job as a gymnastics teacher. On November 10, 1938, after the Reichspogromnacht , she had to give up this job too. The pogrom then marked the end of Jewish sport in Germany. Many tried to escape the impending disaster by emigrating. Lilli Henoch stayed with her mother in Berlin, although she had offers from the USA and the Netherlands to work as a trainer. She taught at a Jewish school on Choriner Strasse until 1942. In 1942, the Nazi authorities closed all Jewish institutions in accordance with the resolution on the “final solution to the Jewish question”.

Henoch was a member of the athletics division of the Berlin Sports Club (BSC) from 1919 and was ten-time German champion between 1922 and 1926 in the disciplines of the shot put , discus throw , long jump and with the 4 x 100 meter relay of the BSC. During this time she also set four world records. She was also among the elite in hockey and handball. She also held managerial positions within the sports club until 1933. In January 1933, she was entrusted with the management of the women's department. After the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, the sportswoman of Jewish origin was expelled from the Berlin SC in autumn 1933. She joined the "Jewish Gymnastics and Sports Club 1905". At this time only sporadically active in athletics, Lilli Henoch formed a handball team in the Jewish gymnastics and sports club in 1905, which was one of the best in Germany in the Jewish sports field. In the early 1930s, Henoch had already completed a course of study at the Prussian University for Physical Education, which enabled her to take up a position as a gymnastics teacher at the Jewish primary school Rykestrasse in Berlin after 1933.

Despite several offers to work as a trainer abroad, she stayed with her students and her mother.

On the 19th “Jewish transport” on September 5, 1942, she and her mother were deported to the Riga ghetto , which she did not reach. Eight kilometers before Riga, all the passengers on the train were taken into a forest area and shot.

successes

German champion

• 1922: Shot put
• 1923: shot put, discus throw
• 1924: 4 × 100 m relay, long jump, shot put, discus throw
• 1925: 4 × 100 m relay, shot put
• 1926: 4 × 100 m relay

World records

• Discus throw: 24.90 m (Berlin, October 1, 1922)
• Discus throw: 26.62 m (Berlin, August 7, 1923)
• Shot put: 11.57 m (Leipzig, August 16, 1925)
• 4 × 100 m relay: 50.4 s (Cologne, July 11, 1926 with the relay of the Berliner SC)

Commemoration

In the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg ( Pankow district ), Lilli-Henoch-Strasse (near the Greifswalder Strasse S-Bahn station ) has been named after her since 1993 . The “ Stolpersteine ” campaign by Cologne artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling stone in front of the athlete's former apartment at Treuchtlinger Strasse 5 in Berlin-Schöneberg in summer 2008 . The German Athletics Association (DLV) has taken over the sponsorship for this campaign, which was organized by the Berlin coordination office for the "Stolpersteine" campaign together with the Kreuzberg Museum. During a ceremony in the Kreuzberg Museum on August 8, 2008, the opening day of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the honorary president of the DLV, Theo Rous, and the Cologne sports historian Dr. Thomas Schnitzler traces the fate of the athlete.

In her honor, an athletics hall at the Olympic base in Berlin bears her name in the sports forum in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. In Berlin-Kreuzberg, a sports field was named on October 26, 2004. In 2005, the gymnasium of the Spreewald primary school in Berlin-Schöneberg was renamed "Lilli-Henoch-Sporthalle on Winterfeldtplatz" by Councilor Dieter Hapel . In 2011, a sports hall in Quickborn was also named after her name.

Lilli Henoch was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

In the exhibition "Between Success and Persecution - Jewish Stars in German Sport until 1933 and After", which was shown in July 2015 as part of the " European Maccabi Games " in Berlin Central Station, Lilli Henoch was remembered alongside other athletes.

In July 2018, a street in Cologne 's Junkersdorf district was named after her.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ profile in the IJshof
2. ↑ The Nazis first stole her life and then her life , Tagesspiegel article, accessed on July 24, 2015
3. ↑ District Representation 3 (Lindenthal): Designation of two planned streets in the Ludwig-Jahn-Straße building area in Cologne-Junkersdorf

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
• Berno Bahro, Jutta Braun, Hans Joachim Teichler (eds.): Forgotten records - Jewish athletes before and after 1933. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86650-038-9 .
• Martin Einsiedler: a name, a legend . Tagesspiegel No. 22464 from July 19, 2015, page 16

Web links

Commons : Lilli Henoch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• DLV and the Stolpersteine ​​campaign
• Lilli Henoch on jewishsports.net - English
• Short biography of Lilli Henoch in the series "Destroyed Diversity (2013)" of the rbb.