[2] German companies significantly contribute to the UAE's ongoing infrastructure projects and play a leading role in the country's alternative energy developments.

[3] Consequently, German Business Park, an area designed to house several of the already seven hundred present companies and their logistical needs, is in the midst of construction.

[4] There are thousands of expatriate Germans in the United Arab Emirates who have helped maintain connections between the two countries.

Contacts between the two societies can be traced back to the early 20th century, when the German explorer Hermann Burchardt visited the British Trucial States in 1908 and photographed the ruler of Abu Dhabi.

[5] Shortly after the UAE gained independence from the United Kingdom, the country established diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany in October 1972.

[6] Two years later, the German Academic Exchange Service and the Goethe Institute opened foreign offices in Abu Dhabi, and a joint German-Emirati Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in 2009.

In June 2019, they adopted a Memorandum of Understanding on a comprehensive strategic partnership with enhanced cooperation in the fields of security, energy, politics, economics, and culture.