Treatment of the alkynyl(diethylamino)germanes Et 2 NGe(CC t Bu) 3 ( 1) and (Et 2 N) 2 Ge(CC t Bu) 2 (2) with dialkylelement hydrides t Bu 2 MH (M = Al, Ga) afforded in high yields the hydrometalation products). The Lewis acidic aluminum and gallium atoms showed a close contact to the nitrogen atoms of the amino groups attached to germanium, which resulted in relatively long Ge−N bonds and short Al−N or Ga−N distances. The structures of these molecules and the strengths of the interactions were investigated by dispersion-corrected density functional theory. This activation of the Ge−N bonds caused an unprecedented reactivity of compounds 4b and 6. 4b reacted with PhCCH under mild conditions and elimination of HNEt 2 to give the mixed dialkynyl compound ( t BuCC)(PhCC)Ge[C(Ga t Bu 2 )C(H) t Bu] 2 (5), while facile insertion of RNCX into a Ge−N bond of 6 led to the formation of the six-membered Ge−C−Ga−X−C−N heterocycles 7 (R = Ph, Et; X = O, S).