1906 in Germany
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Events in the year 1906 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Otto
- King of Prussia â Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony â Frederick Augustus III
- King of Württemberg â William II
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe â George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt â Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen â Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe â Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line â Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (regent Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line)
- Reuss Younger Line â Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont â Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt â Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick â Prince Albert of Prussia (regent) to 13 September, then vacant
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg â Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha â Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen â Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) â 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) â Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Gustav Adolf von Götzen to 15 April, then Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Albert Hahl (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) â Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Friedrich von Lindequist
- Togoland â Johann Nepomuk Graf Zech auf Neuhofen
Births
- 2 February â Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (died 1945)
- 17 February â Käte Selbmann, German politician (died 1962)[1]
- 3 March â Will Eisenmann, German-Swiss composer (died 1992)
- 19 May â Gerd Bucerius, German journalist (died 1995)
- 30 May â Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (died 1959)
- 6 June â Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (died 1993)
- 19 June â Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist (died 1979)
- 28 June â Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics (died 1972)
- 29 June â Heinz Harmel, German SS officer (died 2000)
- 2 July â Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
- 25 August â Eugen Gerstenmaier, theologian, politician, part of the Kreisauer Kreis and Bundestagspräsident of Germany (died 1986)
- 1 September â Franz Biebl, German composer (died 2001)
- 14 October â Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (died 1975)[2]
- 14 November â Albrecht Becker, German production designer, photographer, and actor (died 2002)
- 18 November â Klaus Mann, German writer (died 1949)
- 25 December â Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1988)[3]
- Date unknown:
- Josef Stürmann, a Munich philosopher (died 1959)
Deaths
- 8 February â Wilhelm von Christ, (born 1831)
- 10 February â Anton Hermann Albrecht, German poet (born 1835)
- 19 February â Wilhelm Heyd, German historian (born 1823)
- 8 March â Hermann Rogalla von Bieberstein, German-American engineer and politician (born 1823)
- 10 March â Eugen Richter, German politician (born 1838)
- 17 March â Johann Most, German-American anarchist (born 1846)
- 21 March â Carl von Siemens, German industrialist (born 1829)
- 14 May â Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and US statesman (born 1829)[4]
- 27 May â Erich Zweigert, German politician (born 1849)
- 5 June â Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (born 1842)[5]
- 5 July â Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physician (born 1863)
- 25 August â Max von Eyth, German engineer (born 1836)
- 13 September â Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian general field marshal and regent of the Duchy of Brunswick (born 1837)
- 19 October â Karl Pfizer, German chemist (born 1824)
- 22 October â Emil Ludwig Schmidt, German anthropologist (born 1837)
- 7 November â Heinrich Seidel, German engineer (born 1842)
- 31 December â Friedrich Gumpert, German professor (born 1841)
