:Germany–Serbia relations

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The origin of Serbian-German relations can be traced to the Middle Ages. Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja and Emperor Frederick I had a meeting in modern-day Niš in the 12th century.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5eFNAQAAIAAJ&q=Zbornik+Radova+Instituta+Za+Strane+Jezike+i+Knji%C5%BEevnosti,+%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC+7|title=Zbornik Radova Instituta Za Strane Jezike i Književnosti|date=1986|publisher=Institut|language=sr}} During the rise of Serbian medieval state, Saxon miners were brought to Serbia in order to further expand the mining industry, which was the main source of wealth and power of Serbian rulers. Saxons were given certain privileges for their work.{{Cite journal|last=Katančević|first=Andreja|date=2016-02-04|title=DA LI SU SASI IMALI PRIVILEGIJE U MEŠOVITIM SPOROVIMA U SREDNJOVEKOVNOJ SRBIJI?|url=http://ojs.ius.bg.ac.rs/index.php/anali/article/view/62|journal=Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu – Časopis za pravne i društvene nauke|language=sr|volume=63|issue=2|issn=2406-2693}} Traveling artists from modern day Germany visited medieval courts of Serbia with recorded names including a bagpiper named Kunz who performed in 1379, a flute player named Hans in 1383, and a piper from Cologne named Peter in 1426.{{cite book |last=Calic |first=Marie-Janine |title=The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe |page=40 |publisher=Harvard University Press |ISBN=9780674983922 |date=2019}}

Culture of Serbs in Habsburg monarchy was largely influenced by German culture, and a part of Serbs were subjected to Germanisation. Due to German influences and several other reasons, Serb cultural model was reshaped and looked up to those of countries of Central Europe.{{sfn|Gašić|2005|p=7}}

The Principality and the Kingdom of Serbia held strong relations with Germany. Most Serbian engineers and technical experts were educated in Germany or in German-speaking countries, and German was the required language in related higher education institutions.{{Cite journal|last=Kostić|first=Đorđe S.|date=2003|title=Nemački tehničari i zanatlije u Srbiji. Tragovi njihovog delovanja u tehničkoj terminologiji Srba|journal=Srbi I Nemci, Tradicije Zajedništva Protiv Predrasuda}} Munich was an important education center for Serb painters. German architects also influenced the Architecture of Serbia.{{sfn|Gašić|2005|p=73}} Serbian civil and trade laws, as well as organisation of University of Belgrade, was influenced by German models.{{sfn|Gašić|2005|p=8}}

Relations of the two countries were on a very low level after the World War I, but trading and joint businesses never stopped.

In the interwar period, German political and cultural influence became less relevant, as France became the primary influence on Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and French culture was favored by Serb elites.{{sfn|Gašić|2005|p=8}} However, under Stojadinović's reign, Yugoslavia became closer to Nazi Germany and moved away from its traditional allies, France and Great Britain.{{sfn|Weinberg|1970|p=229}} In the later years, Yugoslavia joined the Tripaltite Pact. A total of 62 PhD theses were defended by Serbian intellectuals in the German language between the two world wars, of which 31 were in the domain of economics. A number of students of the University of Belgrade held German scholarships in the 1930s. Between 1937 and 1940, around 50 Yugoslav citizens studied in Germany, second only to France in the number of foreign students. A number of professors obtained their postgraduate degrees in Germany as well.{{sfn|Gašić|2005|p=}}

• East Germany–Yugoslavia relations
• Foreign relations of Germany
• Foreign relations of Serbia
• Accession of Serbia to the European Union
• Germany–Yugoslavia relations
• Serbian–Sorbian relations
• Serbs in Germany

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• {{Cite book|last=Gašić|first=Ranka|title=Beograd u hodu ka Evropi: Kulturni uticaji Britanije i Nemačke na beogradsku elitu 1918–1941|publisher=Institut za savremenu istoriju|year=2005|isbn=86-7403-085-8|location=Belgrade}}
• {{cite book |last=Weinberg |first=Gerhard |year=1970 |title=The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany A Diplomatic Revolution in Europe 1933-1936 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=0-391-03825-7}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130808190557/http://www.belgrad.diplo.de/Vertretung/belgrad/sr/Startseite.html German embassy Belgrade (in German and Serbian only)]
• [http://www.berlin.mfa.rs/ Serbian embassy in Berlin]
• [http://www.mfa.gov.rs/Policy/Bilaterala/Germany/index_e.html Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Germany]
• [http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/Serbien.html German Federal Foreign Office about relations with Serbie]

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