A Roman-German contingent of troops took part in the Battle of Alcácer Quibir alongside Portugal in 1578, beating back an attempted Portuguese expansion into the country.

In 1872, the German Empire under Otto von Bismarck sent a diplomatic representative to Morocco, and in 1890 a German-Moroccan trade treaty was signed in Fez.

[2][5] In a statement, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Germany of having "exacerbated hostile acts that are detrimental to the higher interests of the Kingdom of Morocco", listing the German government's neutral stance on Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara following the unilateral recognition of the United States of Morocco's sovereignty over the territory, as well as the country's absence from a 2020 Berlin conference on Libya, and Moroccan lobbying attempts to detain an online activist based in Duisburg.

[7][5] In August 2022, the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited the seat of government in Rabat and a German-Moroccan joint declaration was subsequently published, announcing an intensification of bilateral relations.

[8] At the end of her visit, Baerbock and Bourita jointly supported the efforts of the United Nations to resolve the Western Sahara conflict.

[1] About 140,000 people of Moroccan descent live in Germany, most of them in major cities such as Berlin, Düsseldorf or Frankfurt am Main.

[13] Well-known German Moroccans include rapper Farid Bang, the singers Nadja Benaissa and Namika, and football players Adil Chihi, Karim Bellarabi, Mimoun Azaouagh, Manuel Schmiedebach, and Mohamed Amsif.