1906 in Germany

Events in the year 1906 in Germany.

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See also:	Other events of 1906 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Establishments

• Hamburg Hauptbahnhof opens
• The 4th Mounted Rifles regiment is formed
• Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady, Werl is completed

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto
• King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III
• King of Württemberg – William II

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
• Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (regent Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line)
• Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick – Prince Albert of Prussia (regent) to 13 September, then vacant
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (9th and final term) to January, then Oberst Müller (acting governor) to November, then Otto Gleim (acting governor) (2nd term)
• Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Oskar von Truppel
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Gustav Adolf von Götzen to 15 April, then Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (2nd term)
• German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Friedrich von Lindequist
• Togoland – Johann Nepomuk Graf Zech auf Neuhofen

Births

• 2 February – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (died 1945)
• 17 February – Käte Selbmann, German politician (died 1962)^[1]
• 3 March – Will Eisenmann, German-Swiss composer (died 1992)
• 19 May – Gerd Bucerius, German journalist (died 1995)
• 6 June – Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (died 1993)
• 19 June – Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist (died 1979)
• 28 June – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics (died 1972)
• 2 July – Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
• 25 August — Eugen Gerstenmaier, theologian, politician, part of the Kreisauer Kreis and Bundestagspräsident of Germany (died 1986)
• 14 October – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (died 1975)^[2]
• 18 November – Klaus Mann, German writer (died 1949)
• 25 December – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1988)^[3]
• Date unknown:
  • Josef Stürmann, a Munich philosopher (died 1959)

Deaths

• 8 February – Wilhelm von Christ, (born 1831)
• 10 February – Anton Hermann Albrecht, German poet (born 1835)
• 19 February – Wilhelm Heyd, German historian (born 1823)
• 8 March – Hermann Rogalla von Bieberstein, German-American engineer and politician (born 1823)
• 10 March – Eugen Richter, German politician (born 1838)
• 17 March – Johann Most, German-American anarchist (born 1846)
• 21 March – Carl von Siemens, German industrialist (born 1829)
• 14 May – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and US statesman (born 1829)^[4]
• 27 May – Erich Zweigert, German politician (born 1849)
• 5 June – Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (born 1842)^[5]
• 5 July – Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physician (born 1863)
• 25 August – Max von Eyth, German engineer (born 1836)
• 13 September – Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian general field marshal and regent of the Duchy of Brunswick (born 1837)
• 19 October – Karl Pfizer, German chemist (born 1824)
• 22 October – Emil Ludwig Schmidt, German anthropologist (born 1837)
• 7 November – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer (born 1842)
• 31 December – Friedrich Gumpert, German professor (born 1841)