Events in the year 1906 in Germany. 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 King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg 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) 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