501st Heavy Panzer Battalion

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501st Heavy Panzer Battalion
schwere Panzerabteilung 501 — s PzAbt 501—
Active	1942–1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Heer
Type	Panzer
Role	Armoured warfare
Size	Battalion, up to 45 tanks
Part of	independent unit attached as necessary
Equipment	Tiger I (1942–1944) Tiger II (1944–1945)
Engagements	World War II Tunisian campaign Eastern Front
Insignia
Stalking tiger

The 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion (German: "schwere Panzerabteilung 501"; abbreviated: "s PzAbt 501") was a German heavy Panzer Abteilung (an independent battalion-sized unit) equipped with heavy tanks. The battalion was the second unit to receive and use the Tiger I heavy tank, changing to Tiger IIs in mid-1944.

From November 1942 it fought, and in May 1943 surrendered, in Tunisia; reformed in September 1943, it fought on the Eastern front until destroyed in early July 1944; it reformed with Tiger IIs in mid-July 1944, then mostly deactivated on 11 February 1945.