Dirk Nowitzki
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Birth Name: Dirk Werner Nowitzki
Place of Birth: Würzburg, West Germany (now Germany)
Date of Birth: 19 June, 1978
Ethnicity: German, some Polish
Dirk Nowitzki is a German professional basketball player. A power forward, he played with DJK Würzburg, and the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is regarded as the greatest European professional basketball player. He is a special advisor for the Dallas Mavericks. Dirk founded the charity Dirk Nowitzki Foundation, to fight poverty in Africa. He is 7′0″.
His mother, Helga Nowitzki (born Helga Bredenbröcker), was an international basketball player. His father, Jörg-Werner Nowitzki, was a handball player, also on the international level. His sister, Silke Nowitzki, has also been a professional basketball player, and a local champion in track and field.
His surname, Nowitzki, is a Germanized form of the Polish surname Nowicki. Dirk seemed to have indicated that he has a small amount of Polish ancestry.
Dirk is married to Sweden native, Jessica Olsson, who is of half Swedish and half Kenyan descent. The couple has three children. Jessica is the sister of twin professional football players Martin Olsson and Marcus Olsson.
07/13/2011 – Dirk Nowitzki and wife Jessica Olsson – 19th Annual ESPY Awards – Arrivals – Nokia Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Keywords: Orientation: Portrait Face Count: 1 – False – Photo Credit: Koi Sojer / PR Photos
@gref some arabs are black
What’s about african? Was his another grandma a chamber-made by some african-american?
Ghref, I agreed with what you said until you clouded the waters by irresponsibly using slavic and czech as a possibility to describe Nowitzki’s surname. Up to that point you sounded unbiased, not polonophobic. Digest these numbers: 1. On the Ellis Island website, there were 556 immigrants named Nowicki, not one of them were Czech, Bohemian, or Moravian. Guess what ethnic group they were from? 2. In 1998 there were 49,771 Polish citizens named Nowicki, if there was any in the Czech Republic my wild guess would be they were descended from Polish immigrants. 3. Wikipedia estimated Polonia in Germany to be up to 3 million of Polish descent, but qualified that number by saying that after the 2 million mark, many of them have lost their ancestors identity. The Czech ethnic group was estimated between 20,000 – 50,000 in Germany. I don’t mean to rain on your parade but Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, is 25% Polish descent.
25% polish? It’s a smth. new
and nowitzki isn’t polish, not even of polish descent. who knows how far back you have to go till you find the ancestor from a slavic land who moved to germany and married a german (and then the following generations kept doing that – marrying germans meaning his slavic ancestry could be 0,1%, but accidentaly in a direct paternal (=father/male) line so he got his last name from him).
and notice how i used slavic and not polish, that ancestor could just as easily had been czech.
and anyway, german isn’t the same as germanic. germans are mixed, as all nations are. ancestors of modern germans were people from the germanic tribes, like franks (nowitzki was born in franconia), saxons, etc, but also from slavic tribes (pommeranians, abodrites), and even the counqered people of the provinces of the roman empire (eg. rhaetia).
He must be of polish decent, since his name is NOVITZKI, and
not Müller. But he is not really polish, because his polish
ancestors are assimilited
Have you heard of Germanization? How about the surname Jackson, Washington, or Johnson?
They are not german names at all
It doesn’t always go by names the polish name theory is pure speculation I’m black and the name Jasmine derives from Arabic my middle name “Monique” has roots to French. Although both my names are very popular in the black community they have no origins to anything black.
But surnames have a much better indication than first and middle names.
What do you think the Arabs once were?.Many Arabs are still black to this day.Also France was full of black people in the past as well as now,so we don’t know if black had anything to do with the origins or not
lol, arabs weren’t black, they’re from arabia and blacks come from sub-saharan (south of sahara) africa – which are thousands of miles apart.
france being full of black people in the past is even more ridiculous…where do you get this stuff???
next thing – “hitler was black and martin luther king was asian” lol, that’s how ridiculous your statements are.