The Bergepanzer 2 is an armored recovery vehicle based on the Leopard 1 main battle tank, developed in the 1960s and manufactured by Atlas-MaK Maschinenbau for the West German army.

The West German rearmament from the mid-1950s led to the initial equipping of the Bundeswehr with U.S. armored vehicles.

This was intended to significantly reduce the cost of operating, maintaining and repairing the tracked vehicles, since the personnel for many areas only required one-off training and the assemblies could be easily replaced.

"Its main task is to recover or, as far as possible, repair on the spot tanks that have broken down on the battlefield due to enemy action or technical damage.

"[3] On September 9, 1966, the first Bergepanzer Standard rolled off the production line at MaK Kiel.