General Oswald Lutz and Lieutenant Colonel Heinz Guderian pioneered the devlopement of the "Panzerkampfwagen I" which was a lightweight tank.
It was design was completed in 1934
It was manufactured from 1934 - 1936 by four companies Henschel, MAN, Krupp and Daimler
A total number of 833 built. "Panzer" is a German word for "armor". The above answer is specific to the tank that was referred to as "Panzer I".
Name of : Number of Tanks Tank Built Panzer I: 1,490 Tanks Panzer II: 1,856 Tanks Panzer III: 5,774 Tanks Panzer IV: 9,200 Tanks Panzer V/Panther: 6,055 Tanks Panzer VIE: 1,347 Tanks Panzer VIB: 492 Tanks Panzer VII:5 Tanks Panzer VII:1 Tanks Total tanks Built between 1936-1945 was 26,220 Panzer tanks
The tank series got there name because Panzer means tank in german
Ludwig Ewald von Kleist's company built the German tanks with the aid of paid workers and slave workers from the concentration camps. He was tried for war crimes after the war and imprisoned. He built the Panzer tanks.
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The German word for and armored vehicle or tank is Panzer. The plural is the same, i.e. also Panzer.
Panzer=Armor=tanks. Automobile makers generally produce tanks.
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During the Battle of Stalingrad, 1,100 tanks were in the German 4th Panzer Army.
The German 4th Panzer Army (German: 4.Panzer-Armee) was at the Battle of Stalingrad along with the German 6th Army. The Russians had several armies but no "4th" army.
Tank as a container is "Tank"Tank as in an armoured vehicle is "Panzer"
The German word for Tank is Panzer, hence why every "Tank" is called "Panzer". Agreed. In 1942 German tanks were named after predatory cats. Tiger and Panther = panzers. Germany's Leopard II of today is a panzer. Daimler-Benz built the most panzers for the German Army in WW2, while Chrysler was the prime contractor on the Sherman. Nowadays the two have teamed up to form Daimler-Chrysler for peaceful purposes. Fiat, Baretta, Daihatsu, and Mitsubishi are other examples of Axis contractors which survived the political regimes they once served.