1906 in Germany
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Events in the year 1906 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria - Otto of Bavaria
- King of Prussia - Kaiser Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony - Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
- King of Württemberg - William II of Württemberg
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)
- 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, Germann theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics (died 1972)
- 2 July — Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
- 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 who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1988)
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)
- 10 March — Eugen Richter, German politician (born 1838)
- 8 March — Hermann Rogalla von Bieberstein, German-American engineer and politician (born 1823)
- 21 March — Carl von Siemens, German industrial (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 chemistry (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
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