A7V
Chassis number Tank name ( s ) Fate
501 Gretchen Armed only with machine guns until fitted with a 57 mm cannon in late 1918.Abandoned at Sainte-Cécile ( Belgium ) , believed scrapped in situ by the Allies , 1919
502/503 Faust , Kronprinz Wilhelm , Wilhelm , Heiland 502 became a Geländewagen ( cross-country vehicle ) , and was not fitted with armour . After a defect of chassis 502 in March 1918 , its structure was set to chassis 503 ( 503 suffered a cylinder head crack in April 1918 ) . Gifted in October 1918 and taken by the British who scrapped it locally
504/544 Schnuck After a defect of chassis 544 , its structure was set to chassis 504 . Damaged by friendly fire at Fremicourt on 31 August 1918 it was abandoned by crew , and captured by troops of the New Zealand Division three days later . Displayed in London on Horse Guards Parade 1918/19 and given to the Imperial War Museum in 1919 but disposed of in 1922 with only the main gun kept
505 Baden I , Prinz August Wilhelm , August Wilhelm Scrapped by the Allies in 1919
506 Mephisto The only surviving A7V . Damaged and abandoned at Villers-Bretonneux on 24 April 1918 ; it was recovered by British and Australian troops in July . Taken via London to Brisbane , Australia in 1919 , it is now on permanent display at Queensland Museum
507 Cyklop , Prinz Eitel Friedrich , Eitel Friedrich , Imperator Briefly in hands of Freikorps at Lankwitz after the Armistice . Scrapped in 1919
525 Siegfried Scrapped by the Allies in 1919
526 Possibly named Alter Fritz Scrapped by Germans , 1 June 1918
527 Lotti Struck by artillery at Fort de la Pompelle , Reims and abandoned by crew on 1 June 1918
528 Hagen Ditched and abandoned by its crew at Fremicourt on 31 August 1918 ; captured by New Zealand troops and displayed on Horse Guards Parade ; scrapped in 1919
529 Nixe II Disabled by French artillery at Reims on 31 May 1918 ; recovered by French and handed over to US Army . Displayed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum , USA ; scrapped in 1942
540 Heiland Scrapped by the Allies in 1919
541 Scrapped by the Allies in 1919
542 Elfriede Overturned and was abandoned at Villers-Bretonneux , 24 April 1918 . Recovered from no man 's land by British tanks on 15 May and handed over to French forces . Photographed at Saleux 26 May 1918 . Displayed at Place de la Concorde in Paris in late 1918
543 Bulle , Prinz Adalbert , Adalbert Scrapped by the Allies in 1919
560 Alter Fritz Lost at Iwuy , 11 October 1918
561 Nixe Disabled , destroyed on battlefield by Germans on 24 April 1918
562 Herkules Cannibalized then British loot
563 Wotan Scrapped by the Allies in 1919 ; a replica A7V was built in the late 1980s , based largely on Mephisto but named Wotan . It is now in the Deutsches Panzermuseum in Munster , Germany
564 Prinz Oskar , Oskar Scrapped by the Allies in 1919
A7V chassis listing
The A7V was a heavy tank introduced by Germany in 1918, during World War I. One hundred chassis were ordered in early 1917, 10 to be finished as fighting vehicles with armoured bodies, and the remainder as Überlandwagen cargo carriers. The number to be armoured was later increased to 20. They were used in action from March to October 1918, and were the only tanks produced by Germany in World War I to be used in combat.