Methods for determining the nickel (gravimetric and photometric methods), manganese (volumetric, using silver persulfate, and potentiometric methods), iron (photometric method using sulfosalicylic acid, silica (gravimetric and photometric methods) and chromium (volumetric, using permanganate, and potentiometric methods) contents of German silver (Cu/20Ni/20Mn/0.6Fe/0. 2Si/less than 1Cr) are described. -- AATA