The electric locomotives of Bavarian Class EP 2 were in light passenger train service in Germany for almost 50 years.

After their initial classification as EP 2 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen), they were redesignated as E 32s from 1927 to 1968 in the DRG's numbering plan and, later in the DB classification scheme.

The Bavarian Group Administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn procured 29 E 32 electric locomotives between 1924 and 1926-29 for light passenger train duties.

To begin with they still carried their Bavarian classification of EP2 20 006 to 034, before they were allocated to DRG Class E 32.

Numbers 01 to 05 were unused, because they had already been allocated to the Bavarian EP 1 (later DRG Class E 62).