Events in the year 2006 in Germany.
Incumbents
Federal level
President: Horst Köhler Chancellor: Angela Merkel
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 June 9 to July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup takes place in Germany; Italy defeats France in the final. 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)
See also 2006 in German television
References