Sigismund-Helmut von Dawans | |
Birth Date: | 23 September 1899 |
Birth Place: | Erfurt, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
Death Place: | La Caine, Occupied France |
Placeofburial: | La Cambe German war cemetery |
Allegiance: | |
Rank: | German: [[Generalmajor]] |
Branch: | German: [[Wehrmacht]] |
Battles: | First World War Second World War |
Awards: | German Cross in Gold |
Sigismund-Helmut von Dawans (23 September 1899 – 10 June 1944) was a general in the German: [[Wehrmacht]] during the Second World War and a recipient of the German Cross in Gold on 26 August 1942.[1]
Sigismund-Helmut von Dawans was born on 23 September 1899 in Erfurt.[2] He married Ingeborg Hane on 6 April 1923.
Dawans, the chief-of-staff of German: [[Panzergruppe West]] (General Geyr von Schweppenburg), was killed during the raid by the Royal Air Force (RAF) attack on La Caine, the German: Panzergruppe HQ, on 10 June 1944.[3]