# 1906 in Germany

Events in the year 1906 in Germany.

## 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)
* 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)
* 18 November – Klaus Mann, German writer (died 1949)
* 25 December – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1988)
* 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)
* 27 May – Erich Zweigert, German politician (born 1849)
* 5 June – Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (born 1842)
* 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)