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
• 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
• 3 February - Reinhart Koselleck, German historian
• 30 April - Paul Spiegel, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
• 4 May - Fritz Schenk, broadcast journalist
• 9 June - Drafi Deutscher, German singer
• 10 June - Wulff-Dieter Heintz, German astronomer
• 27 July - Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress
• 2 August - Holger Börner, politician
• 26 August - Rainer Barzel, politician
• 26 August - Ulrich de Maizière, general
• 7 September - Andreas Meyer-Hanno, German theater and opera director
• 18 September -Heinrich Trettner, general
• 1 October - Frank Beyer, German film director
• 5 October - Friedrich Karl Flick, German industrialist and billionaire
• 6 October - Heinz Sielmann, German zoologist, biologist and filmmaker
• 20 October - Maxi Herber, German figure skater
• 9 November -Ingrid Hartmann, German sprint canoer