1st Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

1st Panzer Division
1. Panzer-Division — 1. Pz.Div. — XX
Unit insignia (Oak leaf)
Active	15 October 1935 – 8 May 1945
Country	Germany
Branch	German Army
Type	Panzer
Role	Armored warfare
Size	Division
Garrison/HQ	Wehrkreis IX: Weimar
Engagements	World War II Invasion of Poland Battle of France Operation Barbarossa Battle of Moscow Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket Kamenets-Podolsky pocket Siege of Budapest
Commanders
Notable commanders	Maximilian von Weichs
Insignia
1935–1940 and 1943–1945
2nd half 1940
1941–1942

The 1st Panzer-Division (short: 1. Pz.Div. German: 1. Panzer-Division, English: 1st Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army during World War II.

The division was one of the original three tank divisions established by Germany in 1935. It took part in pre-war occupations of Austria and Czechoslovakia and the invasions of Poland in 1939 and Belgium and France in 1940. From 1941 to 1945, it fought on the Eastern Front, except for a period in 1943 when it was sent for refitting to France and Greece. At the end of the war, the division surrendered to US forces in Bavaria.