Ge-rich amorphous alloys containing up to 70at.% Ge were produced by the optimization of the Al, Cr and RE (RE:rareearthmetals) content. Contrary to the Ge-based alloys, no positive influence of RE additions on the glass forming ability (GFA) of the Si–Al–TM and Si–Al alloys (TM:transitionmetals) was found. As no split of the first broad peak is seen in the X-ray diffraction patterns taken from the amorphous phase of the Ge–Al–RE alloys, one can suggest that such a feature observed in the Ge–Al–TM and Ge–Al–TM–RE alloys is affected by the presence of 3d TM. Peritectic-type phase transformation, amorphousphase+unknowncrystallinephase1→unknowncrystallinephase2, was observed in the Ge 60 Al 25 La 15 alloy and studied. The metastable crystalline phase 2 (Ge 12 Al 5 La 3 ) was found to have a tetragonal lattice with lattice parameters of a=0.559nm and c=0.528nm.