Intercultural communicative competence as a global aim of foreign language teaching requires a foreign language teacher profile which takes into account an integration of language teaching and of the development of the learners’ intercultural competence. The paper deals with this issue on two levels. First, it provides an outline of a competence profile of the interculturally competent foreign language teacher. Second, the authors present against this background a selection of findings of an empirical investigation on the self-awareness of German language teachers with regard to the development of intercultural competence as part of foreign language teaching in Croatia. The results show that a basically positive attitude of teachers regarding the integration of intercultural competence into foreign language teaching is confronted with their insufficient familiarity with various aspects of Germanspeaking cultures and with the use of teaching practices fostering the development of intercultural competence in German language teaching. This, in turn, carries implications for the education and professional development of teachers of German as foreign language.