In June, a Cologne district court judge had ruled that circumcision was child abuse.
The judge made the decision to list it as "bodily harm" after one incident of medical complications, after a circumcision.
After the decision, the German Medical Association ordered all German doctors to stop performing circumcisions.
That move was attacked by a united front of Jews and Muslims, to whom doing so is part of their religious beliefs.
Chancellor Angela Merkel defended circumcision as part of religious freedom, in July.
With the new law, male circumcision is now a protected right, under the constitution.
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