Biography and Professional Path

• born 1943 in Creglingen, Germany

• 1964 High School diploma at the Eberhard Ludwigs Gymnasium in Stuttgart

• 1964-1968 studies of theology and philosophy

• 1972-1977 doctoral studies at the University of Tübingen on the social psychology and ethics of Erich Fromm

• 1974-1980 private assistant to Erich Fromm

• 1975-1980 assistant at the Department of Theological Ethics, University of Tübingen

• 1977-1983 training as a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic couple therapist at the Stuttgart Academy for Depth Psychology and Psychoanalysis

• since 1979 married to Renate Oetker-Funk, two sons

• 1981-2011 psychoanalyst in private practice

• 1983-1986 lecturer at the University of Bremen

• 1989-2003 lecturer at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences

• 1991-1997 lecturer at the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences

• since 2013 lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin

• since 1981 director of the (private) Erich Fromm Archive in Tübingen

• Since 1987 Fromm's sole literary executor (literary rights and estate administrator)

• since 2014 director of the Erich Fromm Foundation and director of the Erich Fromm Institute in Tübingen

• since 2016 co-director of the Erich Fromm Study Center at the IPU in Berlin

Rainer Funk and Erich Fromm 1979 in Locarno