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Carrier
At the end of 1940 it got obvious that the Kriegsmarine needed aircraft carriers to support naval operations of the surface fleet. Since the construction of  new aircraft carriers would have taken too long, several existing ships were planed to be converted to aircraft carriers. Ideas to convert the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisneau and the Panzerschiffe Admiral Scheer and Lützow were soon withdrawn, instead several passenger ships and two incomplete cruisers were chosen.
None of these ships was ever completed as an aircraft carrier.

Kleiner Flugzeugträger (CVL) 		Kleiner Flugzeugträger (CVL)

De Grasse (Hilfsflugzeugträger II) 		Laid down: 1938 - 1956
Launched: 11.09.1946
Commissioned: 03.09.1956 (as cruiser)
Fate: scrapped 1976

Europa 		Laid down: Blohm & Voss Hamburg, 1927
Launched: 16.08.1928
Commissioned: 26.03.1929 (as passenger ship)
Fate: scrapped 1962

Gneisenau 		Laid down: AG Weser Bremen, 1934
Launched: 17.05.1935
Commissioned: 03.01.1936 (as passenger ship)
Fate: sunk on 02.05.1943

Potsdam 		Laid down: Blohm & Voss Hamburg, 1934
Launched: 16.01.1935
Commissioned: 27.06.1936 (as passenger ship)
Fate: scrapped 1976

Seydlitz 		Laid down: Deschimag Bremen, 12.12.1936
Launched: 19.01.1939
Commissioned:
Fate: scrapped after 1947
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