1906 in Germany

← 1905 1904 1903 1906 in Germany → 1907 1908 1909
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1906 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1906 in Germany.

Establishments

• Hamburg Hauptbahnhof was opened.
• The 4th Mounted Rifles regiment was formed.
• Construction of the Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady, Werl was completed.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser - Wilhelm II
• Chancellor - Bernhard von Bülow

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

Events

• 30 April - German football club SC Preußen Münster was founded.
• Date unknown: The Wassermann test, antibody test, was developed by August von Wassermann, Julius Citron, and Albert Neisser at the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases.

Births

• 2 February - Edmund Heckler German engineer and weapons manufacture (died 1960)
• 4 February — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (died 1945)
• 24 February -Berthold, Margrave of Baden, German nobleman (died 1963)
• 24 February - Ludwig Stubbendorf, German equestrian (died 1941)
• 3 March — Will Eisenmann, German-Swiss composer (died 1992)
• 17 March — Brigitte Helm, German actress (died 1996)
• 23 March - Lea Grundig, German painter (died 1977)
• 4 April - Joachim Meichssner, German officer (died 1944)
• 26 April - Renate Müller, German singer and actress (died 1937)
• 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)
• 23 June - Wolfgang Koeppen, German writer (died 1996)
• 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)
• 4 July - Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (died 1940)
• 29 July - Walter Gronostay, German composer (died 1937)
• 25 August - Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (died 1986)
• 17 September - Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod, German officer (died 1944)
• 22 September - Gustav Schäfer, German rower (died 1991)
• 13 October - Karl Holzamer, German philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of the German television station ZDF. (died 2007)
• 14 October - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (died 1975)
• 18 October - Erich Warsitz, German pilot (died 1983)
• 22 October - Fritz Cremer, German sculptor (died 1993)
• 2 November - Ruth Hellberg, German actress (died 2001)
• 9 November - Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (died 1996)
• 18 November — Klaus Mann, German writer (died 1949)
• 24 November - Eduard Ludwig, German architect (died 1960)
• 24 December - Joseph Höffner, German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1987)
• 25 December - Ernst Ruska, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1988)

Deaths

• 17 January - Oswald von Richthofen (born 1847)
• 8 February — Wilhelm von Christ, (born 1831)
• 10 February — Anton Hermann Albrecht, German poet (born 1835)
• 19 February — Wilhelm Heyd, German historian (born 1823)
• 20 February - August Hermann, German physical instructor (born 1835)
• 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)
• 23 April - Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau, German botanist (born 1831)
• 27 May — Erich Zweigert, German politician (born 1849)
• 5 June — Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (born 1842)
• 22 June - Fritz Schaudinn, German zoologist (born 1871)
• 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)