Born in Stuttgart on 17 June as son of the manufacturer Hermann Reutter and his wife Clara Mergenthaler

Private music lessons with his godfather Eugen Uhlig, principal double-bass at the Stuttgart Opera

Pupil at the Stuttgart grammar school 'Humanistischens Eberhard-Ludwig-Gymnasium'

Moved to Munich

Studied with Walter Courvoisier (composition) and Franz Dorfmüller (piano) at the Munich Academy of Music and with Ludwig Mayer (organ)

Singing lessons with Emma Rückbeil-Hiller, Stuttgart, and Karl Erler, Munich

Participated in the music festival of Donaueschingen and Baden-Baden; close contact with the Donaueschingen circle, in particular with Paul Hindemith

December: first contract with the Schott music publishing house (Sonate für Violine und Klavier, Op. 20)

Concluded an exclusive contract with the Schott publishing house

As from that year, participated in the music festivals of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein with premières almost every year

Met the singer Sigrid Onégin and her husband Fritz Penzoldt, brother of the poet Ernst Penzoldt

Began intensive concert activities throughout the world

As a concert pianist, he worked together with conductors such as Ferenc Friscay, Eugen Jochum, Franz Konwitschny, Ferdinand Leitner and Karl Münchinger in the years that followed; as an accompanist in lieder, he was the partner of Sigrid Onégin, Alma Moodie, Karl Erb, Lore Fischer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hans Hotter among others

Ten American tours with 450 concerts altogher as accompanist of Sigrid Onégin; during that time met Arturo Toscanini among others

Succeeded Ewald Strässer as principal teacher of composition at the Stuttgart Württembergische Musikhochschule

Was appointed director of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt/Main (from 1938 Staatliche Hochschule für Musik)

17 February: Married Lieselotte Lauk, a pupil of his lieder class

Birth of his son Wolfgang who died in an accident at the age of scarcely three years

Swabian Composer´s Award

Birth of his daughter Gabriele

End of his work as director of the Frankfurt Musikhochschule the buildings of which had been destroyed during a bombing raid in 1943 already

Moved to Dürrenzimmern near Brackenheim (district of Heilbronn)

Birth of his second daughter, Monica

Returned to Stuttgart

Resumed concert activities

Was appointed professor of composition and lies interpretation at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst

Ludwig Spohr Prize of the city of Braunschweig

Full member of the Berlin Akademie der Künste

Full member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich

Began his many years´ work as a junior or chairman of the jury in the category 'Singing' at the annual ARD competition in Munich

Juror at the singing contest in s´Hertogenbosch, Barcelona and Vienna (Mozart Competition)

Succeeded Professor Hermann Erpf as director of the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst

Was awarded the Grand Cross for Distinguished Service of the Federal Republic of Germany

Regular one- or two-month stays in the USA for concerts and interpretations courses at various universities

Visiting professor at the Tokyo Musashino Academy of Music

Master classes at German academies (Hamburg, Saarbrücken)

Several guest lectures at the Kranichsteiner Musikkurse

Led the master class of lied interpretation at the Munich Staatliche Musikhochschule

Founded the Hugo Wolf Society Stuttgart, following a suggestion of the International Hugo Wolf Society New York and with the support of the major of Stuttgart, Arnulf Klett; was president of the Hugo Wolf Society Stuttgart until his death

Grand Cross for Distinguished Service with Star

Honorary doctorate of the Music and Arts Institute San Francisco

Hugo Wolf Medal of the International Hugo Wolf Society, Vienna

Death of his wife Lilo

Hermann Reutter died in Heidenheim on 1 January