* [[2 July]] – [[Hans Bethe]], German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died [[2005 in the United States|2005]])
* [[2 July]] – [[Hans Bethe]], German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died [[2005 in the United States|2005]])
* [[25 August]] — [[Eugen Gerstenmaier]], theologian, politician, part of the [[Kreisauer Kreis]] and [[Bundestagspräsident]] of Germany (died [[1986 in Germany|1986]])
* [[25 August]] — [[Eugen Gerstenmaier]], theologian, politician, part of the [[Kreisauer Kreis]] and [[Bundestagspräsident]] of Germany (died [[1986 in Germany|1986]])
* [[1 September]] – [[Franz Biebl]], German composer (died [[2001 in Germany|2001]])
* [[14 October]] – [[Hannah Arendt]], German political theorist and writer (died [[1975 in Germany|1975]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor-last=Honderich|editor-first=Ted|title=The Oxford Companion to Philosophy|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJFCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT149|date=2005|publisher=[[OUP]]|isbn=978-0-19-103747-4|chapter=Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)|page=149}}</ref>
* [[14 October]] – [[Hannah Arendt]], German political theorist and writer (died [[1975 in Germany|1975]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor-last=Honderich|editor-first=Ted|title=The Oxford Companion to Philosophy|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJFCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT149|date=2005|publisher=[[OUP]]|isbn=978-0-19-103747-4|chapter=Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)|page=149}}</ref>
* [[18 November]] – [[Klaus Mann]], German writer (died [[1949 in Germany|1949]])
* [[18 November]] – [[Klaus Mann]], German writer (died [[1949 in Germany|1949]])
Events in the year 1906 in Germany.
- 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:
- 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)
- ^ 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.
