The society also supports the rights and interests of Armenian minorities in Turkey and other countries of the Near East.
The German–Armenian Society was created 1914 by Johannes Lepsius, Paul Rohrbach and Avetik Isahakyan in Berlin.
Since 1973 the association has published the quarterly magazine Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz ("Armenian-German Correspondence").
The society has also published a number of books, including: 75 Years of the German-Armenian Society (Mainz, 1989), Phoenix From the Ashes: Armenia 80 Years After the Genocide (Frankfurt am Main, 1996), Armenia: History and Survival in a Difficult Environment (Frankfurt am Main, 1998), and Regarding Some Political and Legal Aspects of the Nagorno-Karabakh Problem (Frankfurt am Main, 1999).
The German–Armenian Society organizes various conferences and lectures and is member of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in the United States and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in Stuttgart.