1906 in Germany

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==