The German government regards Saudi Arabia as a partner, as the country can be a moderating influence on radical forces in the Middle East conflict.

[1] Relations between Saudi Arabia and Germany were formed as early as 1929, with the signing of a treaty between the Weimar Republic and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd.

[2] From May 29 to 31, 1976, the then German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt traveled to Saudi Arabia for talks with the then Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz.

[3] The refusal did not lead to diplomatic disgruntlement, but Fahd once again sought talks on the subject by stopping over in Bonn on his way back from the North-South summit in Cancun in October 1981.

[1] The German government under Helmut Kohl decided in 1983 not to supply the weapon system Leopard 2 to a potential enemy of Israel.

On November 7, 2007, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz was received with military honors at the German Chancellery in Berlin.

The following day, Abdullah visited the Brandenburg Gate together with Berlin's governing mayor Klaus Wowereit and then signed the city's Golden Book at the Rotes Rathaus.

The Saudi Embassy in Berlin told the Tagesspiegel: “It was with great dismay that we learned of the tragic traffic accident in Neukölln.

There is a small Saudi diaspora in Germany, which includes mostly students and few individual women refugees who have fled the kingdom due to its patriarchical laws.

As part of a scholarship program run by King Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz, 600 Saudi Arabian students came to Germany.