Moses Pölking

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Basketball player
Moses Pölking
Player information
birthday November 30, 1997 (22 years and 276 days)
size 206 cm
position center
Clubs as active
until 2016 GermanyGermany Alba Berlin
2016-2017 United StatesUnited States Taft School
2017-2018 GermanyGermany SSV locomotive Bernau
2018-2019 GermanyGermany RSV Eintracht
since 2019 GermanyGermany Polar bears Bremerhaven

Moses Adandé Mewanu Pölking (born November 30, 1997 ) is a German basketball player .

career

Pölking, who grew up in Berlin-Moabit , played as a teenager at City Basket Berlin and Alba Berlin . In 2014 he became German U19 champions with the Alba youth team. In 2016 he went to the United States for a year and played at the Taft School in Connecticut . After his return to Germany, Pölking joined the SSV Lokomotive Bernau team ( 2nd Bundesliga ProB ) in the 2017/18 season , but did not appear. In the summer break of 2018 he moved to the regional division RSV Eintracht , with the Brandenburg team he won the championship title in the 1st Regionalliga Nord in spring 2019. In mid-August 2019, he was signed by the second division Eisbären Bremerhaven  . In the 19/20 season, which was canceled in mid-March 2020 due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus , he was second in the table with the polar bears at the time of the premature end. They were therefore awarded the right to promotion to the Bundesliga. Pölking scored an average of 1.8 points / game in the 19/20 season.

Outside of sport

In the summer of 2020, Pölking launched an internet petition to rename the Berlin subway stop Onkel Toms Hütte on the new housing estate of the same name from the 1920s. The son of a Cameroonian mother and a German father feels offended by the name. The name was "for many a kind of racism," said Pölking of the time , since it goes back indirectly to the fictional character Uncle Tom , the term Uncle Tom is an insult and is used to designate a black man as a traitor. He also mentioned Uncle Tom Syndrome .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Player. Retrieved on October 13, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ a b "The name Uncle Tom is an insult". In: zeit.de. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ NBBL / JBBL - Player Statistics - ALBA BERLIN. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ ALBA BERLIN Basketballteam GmbH: Moses Pölking receives double license for Bernau and professionals. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Moses Pölking on Hudl. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Two new youngsters for the RSV front court | RSV Eintracht Basketball. Retrieved on October 13, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ RSV Eintracht creates a masterpiece | RSV Eintracht Basketball. Retrieved on October 13, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Two more new ones with the polar bears. August 17, 2019, accessed October 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Coronavirus: Game operations in the ProA and ProB will be ended prematurely. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Eisbären Bremerhaven - ProA - 2019/2020. In: 2basketballbundesliga.de. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Is the street name "Uncle Tom" racist? | DW | 07/31/2020. Retrieved on August 6, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Pölking, Moses
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pölking, Moses Adandé Mewanu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1997