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| 1900 | 23rd March: Born Erich Pinchas Fromm, in Frankfurt am Main. Only child of the orthodox Jewish wine trader, Naphtali Fromm and his wife Rosa, née Krause. |
| 1918 | Final exam at Wöhler-Schule in Frankfurt, then two semesters studying jurisprudence at the University of Frankfurt. Friendship with Rabbi Nehemia Nobel. |
| 1919 | Co-founder of the Freie Jüdische Lehrhaus in Frankfurt am Main. Student in Frankfurt and—from the summer semester 1919 onwards—in Heidelberg. |
| 1920 | In Heidelberg, he switches from studying jurisprudence to sociology under Alfred Weber. Until 1925, he continues talmudic studies with Rabbi Rabinkow. |
| 1922 | Receives his Ph.D. doctorate in Sociology from Heidelberg University. |
| 1924 | Together with Frieda Reichmann, opens the Therapeutikum in Mönchhofstrasse, Heidelberg. Psychoanalysed by Frieda Reichmann, later by Wilhelm Wittenberg in Munich. |
| 1926 | 16th June: Marries Frieda Reichmann. Turns away from orthodox Judaism. Contacts with Georg Groddeck in Baden-Baden. |
| 1927 | First publications as an orthodox Freudian psychoanalyst. |
| 1928 | Didactical analysis with Hanns Sachs in Berlin and psychoanalytical studies at the Karl Abraham Institute in Berlin. |
| 1929 | Co-founder of the South German Institute for Psychoanalysis in Frankfurt, together with Karl Landauer, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Heinrich Meng. |
| 1930 | Member of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, in charge of the fields of psychoanalysis and social psychology. Completes his psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Berlin and opens his own practice there. |
| 1931 | Falls ill with tuberculosis of the lungs during the summer. Separation from Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Stays on and off in Davos until April 1934. |
| 1932 | Publication of the article “On the Methods and Function of Analytical Social Psychology” in the first edition of the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung. |
| 1933 | At the invitation of Karen Horney, guest lectures in Chicago. Works on the theory of matriarchy and mother right. Death of his father. Friendship with Karen H |