Name of country: Republic of Singapore

Establishment of diplomatic relations:

• 24 December 1965 (Federal Republic of Germany)

System of government: Parliamentary democracy, unicameral system, currently 99 elected deputies

Germany established diplomatic relations with Singapore in the year of its independence. In November 2024, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz adopted a declaration on strategic partnership, along with a corresponding action plan, intended to further deepen cooperation in various fields, most notably in the field of cutting-edge technologies. In February 2026, Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul visited Singapore and launched a joint German-Singaporean Year of Innovation together with his counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan.

Both states consider each other to be important economic partners within the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) respectively. Singapore hosts a number of trade fairs, at which German companies are well represented.

A bilateral cultural agreement has been in place since 1990. Singapore is home to a branch of the Goethe-Institut and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Information Point. The first overseas campus of a German university – the Technical University of Munich (TUM) – was set up in Singapore in 2002, while Fraunhofer Singapore, the first Asian affiliate of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, opened in 2017. The German European School Singapore (GESS) – the largest German school abroad in Asia – celebrated its 50^th anniversary in 2021/2022.