Born in Teschen (Cesky Tesin, North Moravia) on 1 January

Spent his childhood and school years in Teschen

Moved with his mother to Vienna

First lessons of musical theory with Dr. Josef Polnauer

Passed his grammar school examinations in Vienna, followed by two years´military service

Piano lessons with Eduard Steuermann

Registered as law student at the University of Vienna

At the end of the year Ullmann joined Arnold Schönberg´s seminar on composition

On 6 December, at the suggestion of Schönberg, he became a member of the foundation committee of the Society for Private Musical Performances

In May Ullmann married for the first time and moved with this wife Martha to Vienna

 Active as a choir director and répétiteur, later also as a conductor at the New German Theatre under the direction of Alexander von Zemlinsky

The large number of compositions created during this period have to be regarded as lost, with the exception of a later version of VARIATIONEN, PHANTASIE UND DOPPELFUGE ÜBER EIN KLEINES KLAVIERSTÜCK VON ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG

In autumn Ullmann took over the direction of the Aussig Opera for one season

Return to Prague

Worked as a conductor and composer of incidental music at the Zurich Schauspielhaus

First encounter with and intensive involvement in Rudolf Steiner´s anthroposophic movement; Ullmann gave up any musical activities, running an anthroposophic book shop in Stuttgart together with his second wife Anna whom he hab married in 1931

After the Nazis had seized power, he fled to Prague with his wife and his one-year old son Max; there he worked as a free-lance musician as from mid-1933

Worked in Leo Kestenberg´s International Society for Music Education

Hertzka-Price for VARIATIONEN, PHANTASIE UND DOPPELFUGE ÜBER EIN KLEINES KLAVIERSTÜCK VON ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (version for orchestra)

Attended Alois Hába´s courses in quarter-tone composition

Hertzka-Price for DER STURZ DES ANTICHRIST
Nogatiations on planned performances (Vienna 1935 and Prague 1937) failed

The establishment of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemian-Moravia deprived Ullmann of any chance of performing his works

Ullmann married for the third time

Ullmann gave the prints of his compositions published by himself to his friend Alexander Waulin who had made the piano reduction of his opera DER STURZ DES ANTICHRIST

On 8 September Ullmann, his third wife Elisabeth (together with a daughter from her first marriage) and his first wife Martha were deported to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt

At Theresienstadt Ullmann continued to work intensively as a composer, interpreter and reviewer. He was director of the Studio for New Music which had a great influence on the musical life at Theresienstadt. Among the numerous works created there, most of which are lost , were the opera DER KAISER VON ATLANTIS and the STRING QUARTET NO.3

On 16 October Ullmann and his third wife Elisabeth were taken to Ausschwitz where he was killed in the gas chamber probably two days later

Before his death Ullmann gave the Theresienstadt manuscripts to his friend Emil Utitz, asking him to forward them to Hans Günther Adler - in case both of them survived