1906 in Germany

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)
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)
References
Years of the 20th century in Germany
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