After military service as a one-year volunteer in Vienna he made his debut in December 1910 at the Meiningen Court Theatre and remained there until his contract was disrupted in 1914 by the outbreak of the First World War.

While on duty he used his home leave to the Royal Theater in Berlin to make guest appearances and played first at the Volksbühne.

In the same year he made his debut in the film The Countess Heyers and was co-star of Ossi Oswalda and Henny Porten.

In the final stages of World War II, Adolf Hitler himself declared in the Gottbegnadeten list of the most important artists, that Thimig was a national treasure making him, even on the home front, freed from the war effort.

Hermann Thimig rests in an honorary dedicated grave in the Sievering Cemetery (Dept.