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1906 in Germany

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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

References

  1. Herbst, Andreas. (2009). "Who Was Who in the GDR?". Ch. Links Verlag.
  2. (2005). "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy". [[OUP]].
  3. Hawkes, Peter W.. (1990-07-01). "Ernst Ruska". Physics Today.
  4. Helge Dvorak. (2002). "Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft". Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
  5. {{EB1911
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