This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II. Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.

Personal arms and captured arms

Knives and bayonets

Small arms

Revolvers, pistols, and pistol carbines (manual and semi-automatic)

Automatic pistols and submachine guns

Rifles

Grenades and grenade launchers

Mines

• Behelfs-Schützenmine S.150
• Glasmine 43
• Hohl-Sprung mine 4672
• Holzmine 42
• Panzer stab 43
• Riegel mine 43
• Schu-mine 42
• S-mine
• Teller mine (all models)
• Topfmine (all models)

Recoilless rifles

• Panzerfaust

• Panzerschreck

• 7.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40
• 10.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40
• 10.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 42
• SG 113 – planned anti-tank weapon for aircraft

Flamethrowers

• Einstossflammenwerfer 46
• Flammenwerfer 35
• Flammenwerfer 41
• Abwehrflammenwerfer 42

Infantry rifles and machine guns

Infantry rifles and dual-purpose machine guns

Vehicle and aircraft machine guns

Artillery

Demolition charges

• Stielgranate 41
• Stielgranate 42

Infantry mortars

• Krieghoff Model L
• 5 cm Granatwerfer 36
  • M19 Maschinengranatwerfer (automatic, bunker version of 5 cm Granatwerfer 36 on fixed mount)
  • 5 cm Granatwerfer 40 – not accepted by army as army has started to retire 50mm mortars
• 8 cm Granatwerfer 34
  • Kz 8 cm GrW 42 (Kurzer 8 cm Granatwerfer 42) - weight reduction of 8 cm Granatwerfer 34
  • 8 cm Granatwerfer 73 (1944) – no data on usage
• 8 cm minomet vz. 36 – captured from Czechs
• 8 cm Granatwerfer 33(ö)
• 10 cm Nebelwerfer 35
• Granatwerfer 42 (12 cm sGrWr 42)

Heavy mortars and rocket launchers

• (copy of Russian Katyusha rocket launcher)
• Reihenwerfer
• 10 cm Nebelwerfer 40
• 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (multiple-rocket launcher)
• Panzerwerfer (self-propelled multiple-rocket launcher with HE warheads)
  • Panzerwerfer 42 (also known as 15 cm Do-Gerat 42)
• 20 cm leichter Ladungswerfer
• 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42 (multiple-rocket launcher)
• 21 cm heavy mortar 69
• 28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (multiple-rocket launcher)
  • Schweres Wurfgerät 40/41 (rockets launched directly from crates)
    • Wurfrahmen 40 (rocket crates carrier/launcher)
• 30 cm Nebelwerfer 42 (multiple-rocket launcher)
• 30 cm Raketenwerfer 56 (multiple-rocket launcher)
• 38 cm schwerer Ladungswerfer
• Karl-Gerät (Gerät 040 and Gerät 041) - self-propelled 600mm and 540mm mortars family

Field artillery

• 2 cm KwK 30 – Panzer II tank gun
• 3.7 cm KwK 36 – Panzer III tank gun
• Skoda 37 mm A7
• 5 cm KwK 38 – Panzer III tank gun
  • 5 cm KwK 39 – Panzer III tank gun
• 7.5 cm FK 16 nA
• 7.5 cm FK 18
• 7.5 cm FK 38
• 7.5 cm FK 7M85 (7.5 cm FK 40) – AT gun modified for dual AT/field gun role, 10 built
  • 7.5 cm FK 7M59 – simplified production version
• 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz 36 – most common German mountain gun of World War II
• 7.5 cm Infanteriegeschütz 37 (7.5 cm le.IG 37)
• 7.5 cm Infanteriegeschütz 42 (7,5 cm le.IG 42)
• 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18 (7,5 cm le.IG 18)
• 7.5 cm KwK 37 – Panzer IV tank gun
• 7.5 cm KwK 40 – Panzer IV tank gun
• 7.5 cm KwK 42 – Panther tank gun
• Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1901 – Anti-tank, field gun and coastal defense
• Obice da 75/18 modello 34 (Acquired from the Italians by the Wehrmacht and redesignated 7.5 cm LeFH 255(i))
• 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) (Captured from Russia by the Wehrmacht and redesignated Pak 36/39 (r))
• 8 cm kanon vz. 30
• 8.8 cm KwK 36 – Tiger I tank gun
• 8.8 cm KwK 43 – Tiger II tank gun
• 10 cm houfnice vz. 30 (howitzer)
• 10 cm K 17
• 10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze
• 10 cm schwere Kanone 18
• Canon de 105 mle 1913 Schneider
• 10.5 cm Gebirgshaubitze 40
• 10.5 cm hruby kanon vz. 35
• 10.5 cm leFH 16
• 10.5 cm leFH 18 (most common German field gun)
• 10.5 cm leFH 18/40
• 10.5 cm leFH 18/42 (developed but not accepted by army)
• 10.5 cm leFH 43 (development incomplete by end of World War II)
• 10.5 cm leFH 18M
• 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) (Captured from Russia by the Wehrmacht and redesignated 12.2 cm s.F.H.396(r))
• Skoda K-series (among these guns "15 cm hrubá houfnice vz. 1937" was most common)
• 15 cm Schiffskanone C/28 in Mörserlafette
• 15 cm hrubá houfnice vz. 25
• 15 cm Kanone 18
• 15 cm Kanone 39
• 15 cm sFH 13 (obsolete)
• 15 cm sFH 18 (2nd most common German gun)
• 15 cm sIG 33 (heaviest infantry gun)
• 152 mm gun M1910/34 – captured from Russian
• 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10) – captured from Russian
• 17 cm Kanone 18 (heaviest German field artillery piece)
  • 15 cm Schiffskanone C/28 in Mörserlafette (surplus guns on excess carriages of 17 cm Kanone 18)
• 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4) – captured from Russian
• Obice da 210/22 – produced under German control after surrender of Italy
• Canon de 220 L mle 1917 – captured from French

Fortress and siege guns

• Rheinbote (rocket artillery)
• V-3 cannon
• 12.7 cm SK C/34 naval gun (coastal defense)
• 15 cm K (E) (coastal defense, railroad gun)
• 17 cm K (E) (railroad gun)
• 15 cm Kanone 16 (coastal defense)
• 15 cm SK C/28 (coastal defense and 8 made into field guns)
• 15 cm Autokanone M. 15/16 (coastal defense and exported)
• Canon de 155mm GPF (coastal defense)
• 20.3 cm K (E) (railroad gun)
• 21 cm K 12 (E) (railroad gun)
• 21 cm Mörser 16
• 21 cm Mörser 18
• 21 cm Kanone 38 – 1 cannon sent to Japan, 7 used domestically
• 21 cm Kanone 39
• 22-cm-Mörser (p) – captured from Poland and Yugoslavia
• 24 cm Haubitze 39
• 24 cm Kanone 3
• 24 cm Kanone 4 (prototype only)
• 24 cm Theodor Bruno Kanone (E) (railroad gun)
  • 24 cm Theodor Kanone (E)
• 24 cm Kanone M. 16 – bought from Czechs in 1938
• 28 cm Haubitze L/12
• Mortier de 280 modèle 1914 Schneider – captured from France
• 28 cm schwere Bruno Kanone (E)
• Krupp K5 (28 cm railroad gun)
• 35.5 cm Haubitze M1
• 38 cm Siegfried K (E) (coastal defense, railroad gun)
• 38 cm SK C/34 naval gun (coastal defense)
• 40.6 cm SK C/34 gun (coastal defense)
• 42 cm Gamma Mörser
• 42 cm Haubitze M. 14/16
• Schwerer Gustav (80 cm siege guns)

Anti-tank guns

• 25mm Puteaux anti-tank gun model 1937 (captured from French)
• 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun (captured from British)
• 2.8 cm sPzB 41
• PaK 36 (37mm)
• 3.7 cm kanon PÚV vz. 34
• Bofors 37 mm (M1934/36) – captured from Danish, Polish and British forcers
• 4.2 cm Pak 41
• 45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K) (Captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated Pak 184(r))
• 47 mm APX anti-tank gun (captured from French)
• 47mm Schneider anti-tank gun model 1936 (captured from French)
• M35 Bohler and Breda 47mm guns of unclear origin
• Austrian 4.7 cm IG 35/36
• 47 mm kanon P.U.V. vz. 36 (German designation 4.7 cm Pak(t))
• Cannone da 47/32 (German designation Pak 35/36(ö))
• 45 mm anti-tank gun M1932 (19-K) – (German designation 4.5 cm Pak 184(r) and 4.5 cm Pak 184/6(r))
• 5 cm Pak 38
• 57 mm anti-tank gun M1943 (ZiS-2) (Captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated Pak 208(r))
• 7.5 cm Pak 39
• 7.5 cm Pak 40
• 7.5 cm Pak 41
• 7.5 cm Pak 97/38 (also known as PaK 97/38) – modernized French gun of 1897
• 7.62 cm Pak 36(r) (conversion of Russian 76 mm divisional gun M1936 (F-22))
• 8 cm PAW 600
  • Panzerwurfkanone 10H64
• Thor's Hammer/Panzertod (105mm recoilless gun firing 81.4mm subcaliber projectile)
• 8.8 cm Raketenwerfer 43 (rocket artillery, also known as "Püppchen")
• 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 AT/AA gun
  • 8.8 cm Pak 43 – most-produced heavy ATG
• Cannone da 90/53 AA/AT gun (acquired from Italy)
• 12.8 cm Pak 44

Anti-tank weapons (besides anti-tank guns)

• Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle (PzB 35) – captured from Poland
• Panzerbüchse 39 (PzB 38/39)
  • Granatbüchse 39
• Panzerschreck (also known as Raketenpanzerbüchse 43/54)
• Solothurn S-18/1000
  • Solothurn S-18/1100
• Panzerfaust anti-tank recoilless grenade launcher

Anti-aircraft weapons

Light anti-aircraft guns

• Fliegerfaust hand-held anti-air rocket launcher
• 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling – the most produced German artillery piece of World War II, based on Russian 2-K AA gun design which was too complex to mass-produce in USSR
  • Gebirgsflak 38 – reduced-weight version of 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling
• Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/77 (Scotti)
• 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun (captured from French)
• 3 cm MK 303 Flak
• 3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37/43
• 3.7 cm SK C/30 – naval AA gun
  • 3.7 cm FlaK 43
• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K) (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 3.7 cm M39(r))
• 5 cm FlaK 41
• Schräge Musik – also independently developed by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service (both in use by May 1943)
  • Jagdfaust – air-to-air vertical-fire automated cannon
  • SG 116
• Henschel Hs 297 – launch 35 73mm-caliber short-range rockets
• Solothurn ST-5 caliber 20 mm (.79 in)

Heavy anti-aircraft guns

• Rheintochter (surface-to-air rocket)
• Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34 (acquired from Italy)
• 76 mm air defense gun M1938 (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated Flak 38(r))
• 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 8.5 cm Flak 39(r))
• 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 AT/AA gun
• Cannone da 90/53 AA/AT gun (acquired from Italy)
• 10.5 cm FlaK 38
• 12.8 cm FlaK 40
• 12.8 cm FlaK 40 twin mount

Vehicles

Nazi Germany had captured many models of foreign equipment. In the list below, only most prominent captured models are listed. For full listing of captured vehicles see List of foreign vehicles used by Nazi Germany in World War II

Tankette

• AMR 35 – captured from French, some converted to mortar carrier

Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Tank-based

Other

• Schlepper 25PS – 37mm gun on Hanomag chassis
• 7.7 cm FK WD Schlepper 50PS – 77mm gun on Hanomag chassis
• Pz.Sph. 204(f) mit KwK 42 – gun on French Panhard 178 armoured car
• 8.8 cm Flak 18 auf Zgkw 12 – AA gun in field gun mount on Sd.Kfz. 8 half-track chassis
• 8.8 cm Flak 18 auf Zgkw 18 – AA gun in field gun mount on Sd.Kfz. 9 half-track chassis
• Mittler Schutzenpanzerwagen S307(f) mit Reihenwerfer – mortar on French SOMUA MCG half-track truck chassis

Armored cars

• Panzerspähwagen Kfz 13
• Leichter Panzerspähwagen (light armored cars)
  • Sd.Kfz. 221
  • Sd.Kfz. 222
  • Sd.Kfz. 223
  • Sd.Kfz. 260 (light armored radio car)
  • Sd.Kfz. 261 (light armored radio car)
• Schwerer Panzerspähwagen (heavy armored cars)
  • Sd.Kfz. 231
  • Sd.Kfz. 232
  • Sd.Kfz. 233
  • Sd.Kfz. 263 (heavy armored radio car)
• Sd.Kfz. 234 – 8 wheeled armored car (also known as Puma or Stummel)
• Sd.Kfz. 250 half-track (machine gun and mortar versions)
• Sd.Kfz. 251 half-track (machine gun and mortar versions)
• Panzerwagen ADGZ
• M39 Pantserwagen (captured from Dutch)
• Panhard 178 (captured from French)

Armored carriers

• Sd.Kfz. 3 (early) – unarmed personnel carrier of the 1920s
• French Somua MCG/MCL mittlerer gepanzerter Zugkraftwagen S307/303(f)
• French Unic P107 leichter Zugkraftwagen U304(f))
• Gepanzerter Mannschaftstransportwagen 'Kätzchen' – 2 built
• Munitions Selbstfahrlafette auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen II (Wespe chassis as ammunition carrier)
• Munitionspanzer 38(t) (sf) Ausf.K (Sd.Kfz..138/1)
• Sd.Kfz. 252 half-track ammunition carrier
• Borgward B III – armoured ammunition carrier

Engineering and command

• Springer vehicle (demolition vehicle)
• Borgward IV (demolition vehicle)
• Goliath tracked mine
• Räumer S (mine clearance vehicle, prototype only)
• Brückenleger auf Panzerkampfwagen II (bridge layer on Panzer II chassis)
• Minenräumer III (also known as Minenräumpanzer III) – mine-clearing vehicle on Panzer III chassis
• Kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen (command version of Panzer I)
• Panzerbefehlswagen III (command version of Panzer III)
• Panzerbefehlswagen IV (Pz. Bef. Wg. IV) (command version of Panzer IV)
• Befehlspanzer Panther (command version of Panther tank)
• Kugelpanzer – cable-laying vehicle, supplied to Japan
• Sd.Kfz. 247 – armored command car
• Sd.Kfz. 253 half-track artillery observer
• Infanterie Sturmsteg auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen IV (infantry assault bridge version of the Panzer IV)
• Instandsetzungskraftwagen I (maintenance vehicle version of the Panzer I)
• Strabokran – tank-lifting maintenance crane

Trucks

• Opel Blitz (also Maultier (late Sd.Kfz. 3) half-track versions)
• Mercedes-Benz L3000
• Krupp Protze
  • Kfz.19 – Telephone truck
  • Kfz.21 – Staff car
  • Kfz.68 – Radio mast carrier
  • Kfz.69 – Standard configuration for towing the 3,7 cm PaK 36
  • Kfz.70 – Standard configuration for personnel carrying
  • Kfz.81 – Ammo carrier conversion for 2 cm FlaK gun, usually towed
  • Kfz.83 – Generator carrier for anti-aircraft spotlight, usually towed
• Borgward B 3000
• Sd.Kfz. 4 half-track
• Ford B3000 S, V3000S, V3000A
• Ford Modell BB
• Ford Modell V8-51
• Polski Fiat 621- Captured from Polish
• Tatra 111
• Zis-5- Captured from Soviets

Passenger cars

• Volkswagen Kübelwagen
• Volkswagen Schwimmwagen – amphibious car
• Einheits-PKW der Wehrmacht
  • BMW 325 (lightweight class)
  • Horch 901 (medium weight class)

• Mercedes-Benz W 133 III
• Mercedes-Benz W 139
• Mercedes-Benz W 152
• Mercedes-Benz W31
• Tatra V 809
• Trippel SG6 amphibious car

Motorcycles

Motorcycles were often paired with a sidecar as a Wehrmachtsgespann.

• BMW R75
• Zündapp KS 750
• BMW R 17
• BMW R 71
• Zündapp DB/ DBK
• Zündapp KS 600
• Zündapp K 800
• NSU
• DKW NZ 350
• Nimbus (motorcycle) – Denmark-built

Tractors and prime movers

• Landwasserschlepper (also known as Land-Wasser-Schlepper) amphibious tractor
• Schwerer Wehrmachtschlepper, also AA and multiple-rocket launcher versions do exist.
• Sd.Kfz. 2 (HK 101) – lightest German tractor of World War II (half-track and motorcycle hybrid)
• Maultier half-truck
• Sd.Kfz. 4 half-track
• Sd.Kfz. 6 half-track
• Sd.Kfz. 7 half-track
• Sd.Kfz. 8 half-track
• Sd.Kfz. 9 half-track
• Sd.Kfz. 10 light half-track
• Sd.Kfz. 11 half-track
• Bergepanzer III – PzKpfw III chassis
• Bergepanzer IV – PzKpfw IV chassis
• Bergepanther (Sd.Kfz. 179) – PzKpfw V Panther chassis 347 produced (1943–1945)
• Bergetiger – PzKpfw VI Tiger I chassis
• Bergepanzer 38(t) – Jagdpanzer 38 chassis, 170 produced (1944–1945)
• Bergepanzer T-34 – Captured T-34 chassis
• Sd.Kfz. 254 tracked artillery tractor
• Raupenschlepper, Ost (also known as RSO) – advanced tracked tractor
• Saurer RR-7

Miscellaneous vehicles

• Heeresfeldwagen – Army trailer
• Infanteriefahrzeug – Infantry trailers
• Infanteriekarren IF8 – Infantry cart IF8
• Meillerwagen – V-2 rocket transporter
• Einheitsprotzhaken – Trailer attachment hook
• Railroad plough

Navy ships and war vessels

• Siebel ferry – main Wehrmacht landing craft

Aircraft

Secret weapons

• V-1 flying bomb
• V-2
• V3 cannon
• Panzer VIII Maus

Radars

• Freya radar
• Egon
• Würzburg radar
• FuG 25a Erstling
• Seetakt radar
• Flensburg radar detector

Missiles and bombs

Cartridges and shells

• Panzergranate 39

See also

• List of Sd.Kfz. designations
• List of World War II firearms of Germany
• German designations of foreign artillery in World War II
• German designations of foreign firearms in World War II
• Uniforms of the German Army (1935–1945)

References

Further reading

External links

• German Weapons During WW2 (Rifles, Guns, Mines, Vehicles)