Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Army during World War II.

It was initially staffed primarily with personnel of Wehrkreis III and Wehrkreis IV and armed with captured Czechoslovak military equipment that had fallen into German hands falling the German annexation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.

[1]: 56 As part of the partial demobilization of the German armed forces following the Battle of France, the 81st Infantry Division was suspended between August 1940 and February 1941, when it was recalled to duty and intermittently deployed to German-occupied France.

The Division Fusilier Battalion 61 was also briefly dissolved, but subsequently recreated on 4 October 1944.

After its parent army had gotten trapped in the Courland Pocket, the 81st Infantry Division was eventually taken into Soviet captivity after the war's end.