1906 in Germany

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Events in the year 1906 in Germany.

Establishments

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

2 February – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (died 1945)
3 March – Will Eisenmann, German-Swiss composer (died 1992)
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)
28 June – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics (died 1972)
2 July – Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
14 October – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (died 1975)
18 November – Klaus Mann, German writer (died 1949)
25 December – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1988)

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)
21 March – Carl von Siemens, German industrialist (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)

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