2006 in Germany

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Events in the year 2006 in Germany.

Incumbents

Federal level

• President: Horst Köhler
• Chancellor: Angela Merkel

State level

• Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg: Günther Oettinger
• Minister-President of Bavaria: Edmund Stoiber
• Governing mayor of Berlin: Klaus Wowereit
• First mayor of Bremen: Jens Böhrnsen
• Minister-President of Brandenburg: Matthias Platzeck
• First mayor of Hamburg: Ole von Beust
• Minister-President of Hesse: Roland Koch
• Minister-President of Lower Saxony: Christian Wulff
• Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Harald Ringstorff
• Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia: Jürgen Rüttgers
• Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate: Kurt Beck
• Minister-President of the Saarland: Peter Müller
• Minister-President of Saxony: Georg Milbradt
• Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt: Wolfgang Böhmer
• Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein: Peter Harry Carstensen
• Minister-President of Thuringia: Dieter Althaus

Events

• 2 January - Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse
• 9 February - Bundesvision Song Contest 2006
• February - April - 2006 European floods
• 26 June - Murder of Frauke Liebs
• 31 July - 2006 German train bombing plot
• 22 September - Lathen train collision
• 26 September - 2006 Idomeneo controversy
• 26 September – 1 October – Photokina in Cologne
• 20 November - Emsdetten school shooting
• October - 2006 German troops controversy

Sport

• 2006 FIFA World Cup
• Germany at the 2006 Winter Olympics
• 2005–06 Bundesliga
• 2005–06 2. Bundesliga
• 2005–06 DEL season
• 2006 German Grand Prix
• 2006 European Grand Prix
• 2006 German motorcycle Grand Prix

Elections

• Baden-Württemberg state election
• Berlin state election
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election
• Rhineland-Palatinate state election
• Saxony-Anhalt state election

Deaths

• January 27 - Johannes Rau, politician (born 1931)
• June 9 - Drafi Deutscher, German singer (born 1946)
• August 2 - Holger Börner, politician (born 1931)