Dieter Timme

In his youth, Timme played exclusively for Hertha BSC, as he later did as a professional. Even as a teenager, he was allowed to train with the senior team from time to time with the permission of president Wolfgang Holst. However, Timme would not play an official match until the 1st matchday of the 1979–80 Oberliga Berlin, when he was in the starting line-up in the 0–0 draw against Eintracht Braunschweig. After the 2–1 defeat against Bayer Leverkusen on Matchday 2, Timme was not fielded by Kuno Klötzer and his successor Hans Eder initially wouldn not allow Timme to play. In the second half of the season, Helmut Kronsbein became coach for the club, but he couldn not avoid the surprising relegation. Under Uwe Klimaschefski, Timme then became a regular player in the 2. Bundesliga. However, they would only reach third place behind Werder Bremen and Eintracht Braunschweig, narrowly missing out on qualification for the promotion play-offs. In the following season, Timme was a regular under Klimaschefski, as despite his dismissal as coach from the first half of the season, would still continue as a regular under Georg Gawliczek, who led Hertha back to the top-flight in second place behind Schalke 04. By this point, Timme was made a member of the starting XI for Hertha Berlin but by the end of the 1982–83 Bundesliga, the club would once again be relegated to the 1983–84 2. Bundesliga at dead last. Following relegation, the club had looked for direct promotion but by the first half…

Timme began his career as a coach in 1989 at Hertha BSc as coach of the A-Youth, where he stayed until 1994 and would coach future Bundesliga players such as Christian Fiedler, Carsten Ramelow and Andreas Schmidt. After a year's break, Timme began his work as assistant coach of Tennis Borussia Berlin, but "preferred to work as a responsible coach" and thus took up the offer of FSV Velten after one season. With FSV, he failed to stay in the league for the 1996–97 Regionalliga and the club was relegated alongside SC Charlottenburg. After relegation, Velten filed for bankruptcy and Timme became unemployed for almost two years until he accepted the offer from Hallescher FC. He immediately led HFC to victory in the Verbandsliga and was responsible for the club being promoted back for the 2000–01 NOFV-Oberliga. Despite being offered a new contract, Timme declined. He would lead the youth team to a Berlin championship during the 1991–1992 season, something not achieved since 1968. It was not until January 2003 that Dieter Timme received a new job as coach of SV Lichtenberg 47. There he immediately secured relegation in the Oberliga. Due to the continuing downturn in the 2004/05 season, Timme was dismissed after the first half of the season. In the summer of 2005, he completed a six-month training as a football teacher at the German Sport University Cologne. At the same time, he began working as a player observer for the agency Rogon/Sportmanagement W. Farian. Timme had to give up…

Following his managerial career, he would continue to hold his former club of Hertha BSC in high regard to where he was invited to a special event dedicated to the club's history as a speaker in April 2024. He died on 24 October 2024, after a long illness, at the age of 68.