Hermine Schröder

Hermine Schröder (née Wüst; 12 February 1911 – 9 August 1978) was a German track and field athlete who competed mainly in the shot put.

She was the gold medallist in the event at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 and set her personal best of 14.09 m (46 ft 2+1⁄2 in) that same year.

Born in Ludwigshafen, she became a member of the VTV Mundenheim 1883 club and rose to national prominence in the early 1930s, having a runner-up finish in the shot put at the German Athletics Championships in 1931 (behind Grete Heublein), before taking national titles in 1932 and 1933.

[1] In spite of her regularly placing second in domestic competition, she frequently led the world on performance and was the number one ranked shot putter from 1932 to 1933 and again from 1935 to 1939.

German women led the event during this period, with Heublein and Mauermayer being the ones to disrupt her reign.