2006 in Germany

Events in the year 2006 in Germany.

Federal level

 * President: Horst Köhler
 * Chancellor: Angela Merkel c

State level

 * Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg: Günther Oettinger
 * Minister-President of Bavaria: Edmund Stoiber
 * Governing mayor of Berlin: Klaus Wowereit
 * First mayor of Bremen: Jens Böhrnsen
 * Minister-President of Brandenburg: Matthias Platzeck
 * First mayor of Hamburg: Ole von Beust
 * Minister-President of Hesse: Roland Koch
 * Minister-President of Lower Saxony: Christian Wulff
 * Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Harald Ringstorff
 * Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia: Jürgen Rüttgers
 * Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate: Kurt Beck
 * Minister-President of the Saarland: Peter Müller
 * Minister-President of Saxony: Georg Milbradt
 * Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt: Wolfgang Böhmer
 * Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein: Peter Harry Carstensen
 * Minister-President of Thuringia: Dieter Althaus

Events

 * 2 January - Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse
 * 9 February - Bundesvision Song Contest 2006
 * 9–19 February - 56th Berlin International Film Festival
 * February - April - 2006 European floods
 * 9 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006
 * 26 May - Berlin Hauptbahnhof opened
 * 9 June - 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was opened.
 * 26 June - Murder of Frauke Liebs
 * 31 July - 2006 German train bombing plot
 * 22 September - Lathen train collision
 * 26 September - 2006 Idomeneo controversy at Deutsche Oper Berlin
 * 26 September – 1 October – photokina in Cologne
 * 20 November - Emsdetten school shooting
 * October - 2006 German troops controversy

Sport

 * 2006 FIFA World Cup
 * Germany at the 2006 Winter Olympics
 * 2005–06 Bundesliga
 * 2005–06 2. Bundesliga
 * 2005–06 DEL season
 * 2006 German Grand Prix
 * 2006 European Grand Prix
 * 2006 German motorcycle Grand Prix

Elections

 * Baden-Württemberg state election
 * Berlin state election
 * Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election
 * Rhineland-Palatinate state election
 * Saxony-Anhalt state election

Deaths

 * 27 January - Johannes Rau, politician (born 1931)
 * 3 February - Reinhart Koselleck, German historian (born 1923)
 * 30 April - Paul Spiegel, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (born 1937)
 * 4 May - Fritz Schenk, broadcast journalist (born 1930)
 * 9 June - Drafi Deutscher, German singer (born 1946)
 * 10 June - Wulff-Dieter Heintz, German astronomer (born 1930)
 * 27 July - Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress (born 1936)
 * 2 August - Holger Börner, politician (born 1931)
 * 26 August - Rainer Barzel, politician (born 1924)
 * 26 August - Ulrich de Maizière, general (born 1912)
 * 7 September - Andreas Meyer-Hanno, German theater and opera director (born 1932)
 * 18 September -Heinrich Trettner, general (born 1907)
 * 1 October - Frank Beyer, German film director (born 1932)
 * 5 October - Friedrich Karl Flick, German industrialist and billionaire (born 1927)
 * 6 October - Heinz Sielmann, German zoologist, biologist and filmmaker (born 1917)
 * 20 October - Maxi Herber, German figure skater (born 1920)
 * 9 November -Ingrid Hartmann, German sprint canoer (born 1930)
 * 10 May- Robert Alvarez Lee ii, WW ii Veteran (born 1926)