# 2006 in Germany

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Events in the year 2006 in Germany.

## Incumbents
### Federal level

* President: Horst Köhler
* Chancellor: Angela Merkel

### State level

* Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg: Günther Oettinger
* Minister-President of Bavaria: Edmund Stoiber
* Governing mayor of Berlin: Klaus Wowereit
* First mayor of Bremen: Jens Böhrnsen
* Minister-President of Brandenburg: Matthias Platzeck
* First mayor of Hamburg: Ole von Beust
* Minister-President of Hesse: Roland Koch
* Minister-President of Lower Saxony: Christian Wulff
* Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Harald Ringstorff
* Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia: Jürgen Rüttgers
* Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate: Kurt Beck
* Minister-President of the Saarland: Peter Müller
* Minister-President of Saxony: Georg Milbradt
* Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt: Wolfgang Böhmer
* Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein: Peter Harry Carstensen
* Minister-President of Thuringia: Dieter Althaus

## Events

* 2 January - Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse
* 9 February - Bundesvision Song Contest 2006
* 9–19 February - 56th Berlin International Film Festival
* February - April - 2006 European floods
* 9 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006
* 26 May - Berlin Hauptbahnhof opened
* 9 June - 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was opened.
* 26 June - Murder of Frauke Liebs
* 31 July - 2006 German train bombing plot
* 22 September - Lathen train collision
* 26 September - 2006 Idomeneo controversy at Deutsche Oper Berlin
* 26 September – 1 October – photokina in Cologne
* 20 November - Emsdetten school shooting
* October - 2006 German troops controversy

## Sport

* 2006 FIFA World Cup
* Germany at the 2006 Winter Olympics
* 2005–06 Bundesliga
* 2005–06 2. Bundesliga
* 2005–06 DEL season
* 2006 German Grand Prix
* 2006 European Grand Prix
* 2006 German motorcycle Grand Prix

## Elections

* Baden-Württemberg state election
* Berlin state election
* Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election
* Rhineland-Palatinate state election
* Saxony-Anhalt state election

## Deaths

* 27 January - Johannes Rau, politician (born 1931)
* 3 February - Reinhart Koselleck, German historian (born 1923)
* 30 April - Paul Spiegel, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (born 1937)
* 4 May - Fritz Schenk, broadcast journalist (born 1930)
* 9 June - Drafi Deutscher, German singer (born 1946)
* 10 June - Wulff-Dieter Heintz, German astronomer (born 1930)
* 27 July - Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress (born 1936)
* 2 August - Holger Börner, politician (born 1931)
* 26 August - Rainer Barzel, politician (born 1924)
* 26 August - Ulrich de Maizière, general (born 1912)
* 7 September - Andreas Meyer-Hanno, German theater and opera director (born 1932)
* 18 September -Heinrich Trettner, general (born 1907)
* 1 October - Frank Beyer, German film director (born 1932)
* 5 October - Friedrich Karl Flick, German industrialist and billionaire (born 1927)
* 6 October - Heinz Sielmann, German zoologist, biologist and filmmaker (born 1917)
* 20 October - Maxi Herber, German figure skater (born 1920)
* 9 November -Ingrid Hartmann, German sprint canoer (born 1930)
* 10 May- Robert Alvarez Lee ii, WW ii Veteran (born 1926)