Organisation of a SS Panzer Division

The SS Panzer Division (SS-Panzerdivision, short: SS-PzDiv) was an SS formation during World War II. The table below shows the organisation structure that an "SS Panzer division", aspired to contain.

The structure and organisation of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" is equivalent to the table above and served as a standard for all other "SS Panzer Divisions" during World War II. The average complement was approximately 19,000. However, not two SS Divisions out of 38 contained that manpower number. In the second half of the war in Europe, in particular close to the end of war, some divisions achieved only the complement of regiment sized units.