The area of Pansdorf was first settled by Germanic peoples in the early Stone Age, as evidenced by the Grellberg, and another unnamed tumulus just north of the settlement.

[4] In 1845, forest ranger Carl Hermann would unearth a cista a cordoni (Rippenziste) dated near the end of the Nordic Bronze Age (ca.

It is recognized as a particularly important find due to being the first object in the old Germanic north to feature an inscription, seemingly of linguistically Celtic origin.

Pansdorf would temporarily serve as the seat of the municipal government until the construction of the Ratekau town hall in 1939.

[4][7] In October 2014, the special task force of the German police searched an apartment in Pansdorf whose residents were suspected of operating the illegal video-on-demand streaming website kinox.to.

The raid on the apartment was the first major appearance of Pansdorf in the German media, primarily due to the case's peculiarity of a highly criminal operation, connected to an illegal streaming site, being run out of a children's bedroom.

[10] The current village board composition is as follows:[11] In the 2021 German federal election, Pansdorf had four polling stations, in three of which the SPD won a majority of party list votes, while the CDU won a majority of party list votes in only one of the polling stations.

The SPD district candidate Bettina Hagedorn won a majority of constituency votes in all four polling stations.