What specific German naval ships have visited Greenland and when?

1. The Berlin’s historic Nuuk call: date, role and symbolism

Multiple reports say the German Navy’s replenishment tanker EGV Berlin made a first-ever port call in Nuuk on August 16, 2025, arriving after exercising with Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 and undertaking logistics and resupply tasks in the GIUK region (Greenland–Iceland–UK gap) ^{[1] [2] [4]}. Coverage emphasizes Berlin’s size and capabilities — long endurance, fuel and helicopter capacity — and frames the visit both as a practical logistic stop and as a political signal of European interest and solidarity in the Arctic ^[2].

2. Other German vessels mentioned in the operational narrative — what is and isn’t confirmed

Reporting about the Berlin’s operations notes that the German frigate Hamburg was part of the same task group and rejoined SNMG1 during the period in which Berlin conducted replenishment and set course for Nuuk; MarineForum and Naval News link Hamburg to those at-sea manoeuvres but do not state Hamburg made a Nuuk port call itself ^{[1] [4]}. Thus while Hamburg appears in contemporaneous operational accounts in the North Atlantic and Arctic Circle, the sources provided do not document a Hamburg visit to Greenland ports ^{[1] [4]}.

3. Subsequent deployments and NATO context without port-call confirmation

News wires and briefings in early 2026 describe Germany increasing Arctic activity and deploying frigates to NATO tasks in northern waters — for example, the frigate Sachsen (Saxony) departing Wilhelmshaven on January 12, 2026 to join NATO monitoring groups — but those accounts frame deployments toward collective NATO missions and do not say the Sachsen or other German warships made Greenland port calls in the reporting provided ^{[3] [5]}. German statements and allied planning are reported as part of a broader European response to Arctic security concerns, not as evidence of multiple German ships visiting Greenland ^[5].

4. Viral claims, misinfo and how they diverge from sourced reporting

Several outlets and social-media threads flagged viral posts claiming multiple German warships — some described incorrectly as carrying jet squadrons or heavy missiles — were being sent to Greenland; fact-checking coverage and comment threads pushed back, noting Germany does not operate vessels with attack-jet squadrons and that there was no official confirmation of multiple warships being dispatched as those viral posts implied ^{[6] [7]}. The more reliable reporting in Naval News, ArcticToday and MarineForum, by contrast, documents the Berlin’s visit and frames broader activity as NATO cooperation rather than a standalone German naval invasion of Greenland ^{[1] [2] [4]}.

5. What the sources together support — and the limits of the record

Based on the supplied reporting, the clear, attributable fact is that the replenishment ship EGV Berlin visited Nuuk on or around 16 August 2025 ^{[1] [2] [4]}. Other German naval units (Hamburg; task-group frigates) are recorded operating in the North Atlantic and supplying or being supplied by Berlin, and Germany conducted personnel movements and reconnaissance flights as allies coordinated Arctic deployments, but the provided sources do not confirm additional named German warships making port calls in Greenland beyond the Berlin ^{[1] [4] [8]}. If the question seeks a comprehensive, official log of every German warship visit to Greenland before or after these dates, that level of documentary detail is not present in the sources supplied here, and further primary-source naval movement logs or official Bundeswehr/Greenland port records would be required.