[2] In 1960, West Germany under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the Central African Republic, which had become independent of France two years earlier, established diplomatic relations under President David Dacko.

As a German special ambassador, Harald Graf von Posadowsky-Wehner attends the coronation ceremony.

From 1981, the German jurist Rolf Knieper acts as legal advisor to the Emperor of Central Africa.

[2] In 2014, 80 German soldiers were sent by the Bundestag for the EU mission EUFOR RCA in the Central African Republic.

In 2014, Germany provided 145 million euros for the reconstruction of the health system and measures to combat hunger in the country, which was shaken by civil war.