Career
He is still a figure skating coach. Ketterer started figure skating at the club South Carolina Riessersee in 1956 after the 1956 World Figure Skating Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Later Reinhard Ketterer was coached by Erich Zeller.
He switched to pair skating in 1968, inspired by Almut Lehmann.
He retired from competitive skating that year. He focused on his professional education and career.
The following years he appeared in over 600 figure skating shows. From 1972 to 1973, Ketterer studied at the German Sport University Cologne to become an independent teacher for sport.
From 1974 to 1978, he passed the Abitur at the "Gymnasium and Kolleg Sankt Matthias" in Wolfratshausen.
From 1979 to 1984, he studied teaching, specialising in sports and German language at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1985 to 1988, he studied remotely at the Coach Academy Cologne. Until he became a pensioner he was head of the Federal bas camp in Berlin.
He still is leading coach for educating coaches on C-level (German classification).
Since 1992, Ketterer is leading coach and chairman of the federal sport base figure skating Berlin. He also leads the coach education there.
He is also a coach of novice and junior skaters as well as the German national team In 2010 he joined the teaching team of the Austrian coach education.
Since 2013 he is Vice chairman of the Berlin Ice sport federation (BERLINER EISSPORT-VERBANDES eV).
In 2006, he appeared as a jury member at the television show Dancing on Ice on the German television station RTL. Ketterer lives with his longtime girlfriend in Lichterfelde-West in Berlin.