Could German liners become light or escort carriers?

Were any German passenger liners suitable for conversion into useful light or escort carriers?

A few fast liners may have been plausible, but most required extensive work and all competed for scarce shipyard capacity.

A Soryu-like design would not be especially light, and copying Graf Zeppelin's aircraft-management arrangements would reproduce its infrastructure problems. Smaller liners tended to be too slow without major machinery replacement. The reply nevertheless recalls two candidates capable of roughly 27-28 knots, an adequate rather than exceptional carrier speed. Conversion was possible in principle, though it competed for the same scarce yards and engineering effort as other warships.