101st Airborne Division | Football League First Division | NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship | Football League Second Division | Joy Division | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | 82nd Airborne Division | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Panzer | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Texas Ranger Division | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Cypriot First Division | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Hong Kong First Division League | Football League Third Division | division | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Division (military) | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset |
The other two were the 1st Panzer Division formed in Weimar and commanded by Maximilian von Weichs and the 2nd Panzer Division formed in Würzburg and commanded by Heinz Guderian.
The division was formed as an emergency battle group (German: Alarmkampfgruppe) around a core of 1st Panzer Division veterans, the units from the 178th Panzer Division, and the staff of the Kleine Karpaten training facility in Malacky.