Events in the year 1906 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level Emperor – 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) 30 May – Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (died 1959) 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) 29 June – Heinz Harmel, German SS officer (died 2000) 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) 1 September – Franz Biebl, German composer (died 2001) 14 October – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (died 1975) 14 November – Albrecht Becker, German production designer, photographer, and actor (died 2002) 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