Career
Herbert Wimmer started his playing career with lowly Borussia Brand (a place close to the city of Aachen). Between 1966 and 1978 he played in 366 Bundesliga matches for Borussia Mönchengladbach and scored 51 goals. He started out as a forward, but in Mönchengladbach his role was primarily to cover defensively for the star of the team in this era, midfield playmaker Günter Netzer.
His physical endurance, the iron lung, was one of his major assets.
He was considered as a paragon of a player that never runs out of steam. Between 1968 and 1976, Wimmer also played in 36 matches for the German national football team, where he scored four goals.