 List of heavy cruisers of Germany

The German navies of the 1920s through 1945—the Reichsmarine and later Kriegsmarine—built or planned a series of heavy cruisers starting in the late 1920s, initially classified as "Panzerschiffe" (armored ships).Four different designs—the , , , and es, comprising twenty-two ships in total—were prepared in the period, though only the three "Deutschland"-class ships and three of the five "Admiral Hipper"-class cruisers were ever built.