his good performances attracted several bundesliga clubs and timm decided to move to karlsruher sc in july 2007, where he signed a three-year contract. on 27 june 2009, his contract was extended until 30 june 2012. in july 2011, the club told timm that he will not be part of the squad any longer, yet all subsequent attempts to reach mutual consent on an earlier termination of his contract failed. timm made use of his right to participate in the training sessions but he had not been given a shirt number for the 2011–12 season. he was restored to the squad but was released by ksc at the end of the season