All homogeneous sphere packings were derived which correspond to point configurations of the 26 bivariant lattice complexes belonging to the hexagonal crystal family. They may be assigned to 109 sphere-packing types. Among these, there is a type of sphere packing with contact number 10 that was not described before. For seven of the 109 types, the inherent symmetry of the sphere packings with minimal density is cubic. In addition, three types of interpenetrating sphere packings were found and one type of interpenetrating 6(3) sphere layers. Such an arrangement was unknown so far. Some frequently occurring structure types that can be related to sphere packings are described as examples.
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