1906 in Germany

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Last updated October 29, 2025

Establishments

Hamburg Hauptbahnhof opens
The 4th Mounted Rifles regiment is formed
Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady, Werl is completed

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – Wilhelm II
Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

Births

2 February – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (died 1945)
17 February – Käte Selbmann, German politician (died 1962)^[1]
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)^[2]
18 November – Klaus Mann, German writer (died 1949)
25 December – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1988)^[3]
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)^[4]
27 May – Erich Zweigert, German politician (born 1849)
5 June – Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (born 1842)^[5]
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

↑ Herbst, Andreas (2009). "Selbmann, Käte". Who Was Who in the GDR? (in German). Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag. Retrieved 2024-04-12– via Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung.
↑ Honderich, Ted, ed. (2005). "Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)". The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. OUP. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-19-103747-4.
↑ Hawkes, Peter W. (1990-07-01). "Ernst Ruska". Physics Today. 43 (7): 84–85. doi:10.1063/1.2810640. ISSN 0031-9228.
↑ Helge Dvorak (2002). "Schurz, Carl Christian". Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft (in German). Vol. Band I: Politiker Teilband 5: R-S. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter. pp. 372–376. ISBN 3-8253-1256-9.
↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hartmann, Karl Robert Eduard von". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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[:0-1] Herbst, Andreas (2009). "Selbmann, Käte". Who Was Who in the GDR? (in German). Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag. Retrieved 2024-04-12– via Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung.

[2] Honderich, Ted, ed. (2005). "Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)". The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. OUP. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-19-103747-4.

[3] Hawkes, Peter W. (1990-07-01). "Ernst Ruska". Physics Today. 43 (7): 84–85. doi:10.1063/1.2810640. ISSN 0031-9228.

[4] Helge Dvorak (2002). "Schurz, Carl Christian". Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft (in German). Vol. Band I: Politiker Teilband 5: R-S. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter. pp. 372–376. ISBN 3-8253-1256-9.

[5] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hartmann, Karl Robert Eduard von". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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