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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<ref>{{Cite web |title=USATODAY.com - Germany officials halt search at collapsed ice rink |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-02-germany-rink_x.htm |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=usatoday30.usatoday.com}}</ref> * 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<ref name="rgi20060701">{{cite news |date=1 July 2006 |title=Merkel opens Berlin Hauptbahnhof |publisher=Railway Gazette International |url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/passenger/single-view/view/merkel-opens-berlin-hauptbahnhof.html |access-date=13 October 2022 |archive-date=4 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004212701/http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/passenger/single-view/view/merkel-opens-berlin-hauptbahnhof.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 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)<ref>{{Cite news |date=2000-01-09 |title=Zentralrat der Juden: Paul Spiegel tritt Bubis-Nachfolge an |language=de |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/zentralrat-der-juden-paul-spiegel-tritt-bubis-nachfolge-an-a-59179.html |access-date=2022-10-13 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref> * 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)<ref>{{Cite news |last=WELT.de |date=2006-07-27 |title=Todesfall: Elisabeth Volkmann einsam gestorben |language=de |work=DIE WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article232295/Elisabeth-Volkmann-einsam-gestorben.html |access-date=2022-10-13}}</ref> * 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== {{Reflist}}

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