Abstract
This article wants to discuss this question why German foreign policy has an ambivalent character and no grand strategy. To answer this question, I focus on the domestic level to draw up a profile of the German foreign policy making process. For the analysis content analysis is used as a research method in order to examine the legitimate actors who make foreign policy decisions and determine the guidelines of German foreign policy. In summary, German politics is divided between a value-oriented and an interest-based, and federal and central foreign policy, and the Basic Law provides no conclusive regulation on the foreign policy, which has already led to conflicts between the Federal Government and the Federal States, the Federal Government and the Bundestag and coalition parties in the government.