We present new time integrated data on the optical emission spectra of laser produced germanium plasma using a Qswitched Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm), power density up to about 5 × 10 9 W cm −2 in conjunction with a set of five spectrometers covering a spectral range from 200 nm to 720 nm. Well resolved structure due to the 4p5s → 4p 2 transition array of neutral germanium and a few multiplets of singly ionized germanium have been observed. Plasma temperature has been determined in the range (9000-11 000) K using four different techniques; two line ratio method, Boltzmann plot, Saha-Boltzmann plot and Marotta's technique whereas electron density has been deduced from the Stark broadened line profiles in the range (0.5-5.0) × 10 17 cm −3 , depending on the laser pulse energy to produce the germanium plasma. Full width at half maximum (FWHM) of a number of neutral and singly ionized germanium lines have been extracted by the Lorentzian fit to the experimentally observed line profiles. In addition, we have compared the experimentally measured relative line strengths for the 4p5s 3 P 0,1,2 → 4p 2 3 P 0,1,2 multiplet with that calculated in the LScoupling scheme revealing that the intermediate coupling scheme is more appropriate for the level designations in germanium.