Men's Singles Seeds
2012 German Open
| Athlete | Country | Seed |
|---|---|---|
| Timo Boll | GER | 1 |
| Dimitrij Ovtcharov | GER | 2 |
| Chih-Yuan Chuang | TPE | 3 |
| Ning Gao | SIN | 4 |
| Tianyi Jiang | HKG | 5 |
| Jungwoo Lee | KOR | 6 |
| Koki Niwa | JPN | 7 |
| Seiya Kishikawa | JPN | 8 |
| Jian Zhan | SIN | 9 |
| Bastian Steger | GER | 10 |
| Weixing Chen | AUT | 11 |
| Adrien Mattenet | FRA | 12 |
| Robert Gardos | AUT | 13 |
| Christian Suss | GER | 14 |
| Tiago Apolonia | POR | 15 |
| Andrej Gacina | CRO | 16 |
| Alexey Smirnov | RUS | 17 |
| Hyundeok Seo | KOR | 18 |
| Minseok Kim | KOR | 19 |
| Chien-An Chen | TPE | 20 |
| Kenta Matsudaira | JPN | 21 |
| Jens Lundqvist | SWE | 22 |
| Hu Li | SIN | 23 |
| Emmanuel Lebesson | FRA | 24 |
| Noshad Alamiyan | IRI | 25 |
| Bora Vang | TUR | 26 |
| Ruiwu Tan | CRO | 27 |
| Ruwen Filus | GER | 28 |
| Daniel Habesohn | AUT | 29 |
| Sharath Kamal Achanta | IND | 30 |
| He Bai | SVK | 31 |
| Simon Gauzy | FRA | 32 |