Career
He worked during the 1960s and 1970s for television sport serie Aktuelles Sportstudio on German channel ZDF. Thoelke was showmaster of the television shows Drei mal Neun and Der große Preis in the 1970s and 1980s. Thoelke was married and had two children. Wim Thoelke: Stars, Kollegen und Ganoven – eine Art Autobiographie.