Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Berlin and consulates general in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Stuttgart.

In the late 13th or early 14th century, German miners, so-called "Saxons" (Sasi), came to Bosnia from Hungary.

[citation needed] From 1878 and 1918 respectively, Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of Austria-Hungary and thus was automatically allied with the German Empire in the First World War.

In the Second World War, the Axis powers led by Germany had proclaimed the "Independent State of Croatia" after the invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941.

Since the end of the war, Germany has been committed to Bosnia and Herzegovina in a variety of ways, for example within the framework of development cooperation and SFOR or, since 2004, the EUFOR mission Operation Althea, and is today one of the country's most important European partners, also in its efforts to bring it closer to the European Union.