Career
He is 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) tall and played the Center position. He currently works for the sports management company T.E.A.M. Consulting and is president of the Basketball Bundesliga for Women. Thimm played professional basketball for the German Basketball Bundesliga teams SSV Hagen, TuS Bayer 04 Leverkusen and the Spanish ACB team Real Madrid.
In 1972 Thimm became the first German basketball player to ever play professional basketball for an international team
Even though Thimm constantly was among Real Madrid’s top performers, he never consistently made it into the starting lineup. At both tournaments he was the top-scorer of the German team
His most noteworthy performance were 21 points at a surprising victory against Poland at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
