Bjorn Rohwer

Bjorn Rohwer
Player information
Full name	Björn Thomas Rohwer
birthday	August 22, 1995
place of birth	Rendsburg , Germany
size	213 cm
position	center
Clubs as active
–2015 BBC Rendsburg 2012 → Piraten Hamburg 2015–2018 Ratiopharm Ulm 2015–2018 → Weißenhorn Youngstars 2018–2020 FC Schalke 04 since 2020 SC Rasta Vechta 0

Björn Thomas Rohwer (born August 22, 1995 in Rendsburg ) is a German basketball player . He is 2.13 meters tall and plays on the inside position ( center ) and on the grand piano.

Player career

Rohwer went through the youth department of the BBC Rendsburg, starting his basketball career at the age of twelve. In the 2011/12 season he was used for the first time in the men's team of the club in the 2nd regional league. From 2009 to 2011 Rohwer played for the BBC in the youth basketball league and in the 2012/13 season temporarily for the Piraten Hamburg in the youth basketball league .

He was appointed to the squad of the German U18 national team for the European Championship (B group) 2013, which took place in July 2013 in Macedonia and ended with an eleventh place for the Germans. Rohwer scored an average of 3.1 points and 1.6 rebounds in eight European Championship games.

In the 2013/14 season he won the championship title with BBC Rendsburg in the 2nd Regionalliga North-North and was promoted to the 1st Regionalliga North. After his first season in this league (2014/15) he was named "Eurobasket.com All-Regionalliga North Newcomer of the Year" by the basketball internet portal eurobasket.com .

In July 2015, Rohwer's move to Ratiopharm Ulm was announced. He was in the Ulm Bundesliga squad from the 2015/16 season, but was mostly used by the Weißenhorn Youngstars in the 2nd Bundesliga Pro B , for which he was entitled to play thanks to a double license. On October 1, 2015, he made his Bundesliga debut for Ulm in the game against Alba Berlin . In the 2016/17 season he won the ProB championship with Weißenhorn and was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA . He contributed to this success with an average of 9.8 points and 6 rebounds (in 29 missions). After the team was renamed OrangeAcademy, Rohwer scored an average of 10.2 points and 4.9 rebounds in 28 games in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA during the 2017/18 season. However, the class stay in the second division was missed.

In July 2018 he was signed by FC Schalke 04 (promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA). With 8.8 points per game he was Schalke's fourth-best scorer in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA in the 2018/19 season, and he also scored an average of 5.9 rebounds per match. During the summer break of 2020, he agreed on a contract with Bundesliga club SC Rasta Vechta .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bjarne Homfeldt: Björn Rohwer: A doubly successful summer. (No longer available online.) In: www.bbcr.de. Archived from the original on February 7, 2016 ; accessed on February 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ BBL GmbH. In: www.basketball-bund.net. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
3. ^ JBBL Nord teams. (No longer available online.) In: NBBL and JBBL. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on February 7, 2016 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Teams of the NBBL Northeast. In: NBBL and JBBL. Accessed February 7, 2016 (German). 
5. ↑ U18 boys finish EM in 11th place. In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Federation, accessed February 7, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Björn Rohwer | U18 European Championship Men (2013) | FIBA Europe. In: www.fibaeurope.com. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Master list - Basketball Regionalliga Nord. In: www.rln-basketball.de. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
8. ↑ German Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - eurobasket.com. In: www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
9. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Basketball: Two more talents for Ulm and Weißenhorn. In: swp.de. Accessed February 7, 2016 (German). 
10. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Player. In: www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Beko BBL - 2015-10-01 BER-ULM. In: www.beko-bbl.de. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
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14. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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16. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Squad. Accessed March 31, 2019 . 
17. ↑ https://www.rasta-vechta.de/home/einzelansicht/neue-rasta-riesen-clifford-und-rohwer-kommen/