1906 in Germany
Events in the year 1906 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
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
- 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 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 – Jesko von Puttkamer ' to January, then Oberst Müller ' to November, then Otto Gleim ' '
- Kiaochow – Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa – Gustav Adolf von Götzen to 15 April, then Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg
- German New Guinea – Albert Hahl
- German Samoa – Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa – Friedrich von Lindequist
- Togoland – Johann Nepomuk Graf Zech auf Neuhofen
Births
- 2 February – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian
- 17 February – Käte Selbmann, German politician
- 3 March – Will Eisenmann, German-Swiss composer
- 19 May – Gerd Bucerius, German journalist
- 30 May – Bruno Gröning, German faith healer
- 6 June – Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician
- 19 June – Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist
- 28 June – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics
- 29 June – Heinz Harmel, German SS officer
- 2 July – Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 25 August — Eugen Gerstenmaier, theologian, politician, part of the Kreisauer Kreis and Bundestagspräsident of Germany
- 1 September – Franz Biebl, German composer
- 14 October – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer
- 14 November – Albrecht Becker, German production designer, photographer, and actor
- 18 November – Klaus Mann, German writer
- 25 December – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Date unknown:
- * Josef Stürmann, a Munich philosopher
Deaths
- 8 February – Wilhelm von Christ,
- 10 February – Anton Hermann Albrecht, German poet
- 19 February – Wilhelm Heyd, German historian
- 8 March – Hermann Rogalla von Bieberstein, German-American engineer and politician
- 10 March – Eugen Richter, German politician
- 17 March – Johann Most, German-American anarchist
- 21 March – Carl von Siemens, German industrialist
- 14 May – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and US statesman
- 27 May – Erich Zweigert, German politician
- 5 June – Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher
- 5 July – Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physician
- 25 August – Max von Eyth, German engineer
- 13 September – Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian general field marshal and regent of the Duchy of Brunswick
- 19 October – Karl Pfizer, German chemist
- 22 October – Emil Ludwig Schmidt, German anthropologist
- 7 November – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer
- 31 December – Friedrich Gumpert, German professor