A double knitting cam unit for knitting machines, with working jacks arrad in the needle channels of the needle beds behind the knitting needles and Jacquard jacks arranged behind these, includes superposed needle cam units (AD), jack cam units (BD) and Jacquard jack cam units (CD) with fixed and movable cam elements. In order to enable a transfer of stitches independently of the carriage traverse direction and independently of the transfer direction towards the front, towards the rear or in both directions at the same time, the cam units (AD, BD, CD) are made symmetrical to the central line (L) between the two parts of the double knitting cam unit and each needle or jack cam unit (AD, BD) contains movable transfer cam elements (1/1) and each jack or needle cam unit (BD, AD) contains movable acceptor cam elements (9, 8) for stitch transfer. Preferably, the movable transfer cam elements (1/1) are made movable in the needle cam unit (AD) in the longitudinal direction of the needles and the movable acceptor cam elements (8, 9) are provided in the jack cam unit (BD).