Georg Gawantka

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Georg Gawantka (born August 18, 1891 in Berlin , † July 14, 1939 in Prague ) was a German major general and division commander .

Life

Georg Gawantka joined the 3rd Badischer Dragoon Regiment "Prinz Karl" No. 22 of the Prussian Army on February 28, 1910 as a flag junior , where he was promoted to ensign on October 19, 1910 and after attending military school he was deployed as a squadron officer . With the outbreak of World War I , this regiment came to the front. In mid-February 1917 he joined the staff of the 115th Infantry Division , was promoted to Rittmeister on August 18, 1918 and stayed here until his return to his original unit in November 1918.

After the war, he was accepted into the Reichswehr as Rittmeister in 1919 and first with the Reichswehr Cavalry Regiment 4, then from October with the Reichswehr Cavalry Regiment 113. In the 200,000-man transitional army in the spring of 1920, he was a member of the regimental staff of the 18 Cavalry Regiment and stayed here even after the formation of the 100,000-man army. In 1924/25 he was appointed chief of the 4th (Bad.) Squadron of the 18th Cavalry Regiment in Ludwigsburg.

After leadership roles in various units, he came to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin in early 1932 . Here he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1933. On February 1, 1938, he became the commander of the 3rd Rifle Brigade in Eberswalde. After a short time he gave up this command and at the same time was promoted to major general and on that day he succeeded Colonel Edwin von Rothkirch and Trach as commander of the 2nd Rifle Brigade in Vienna . He gave up his command on May 1, 1939 and was appointed commander of the 10th Panzer Division in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia on the same day . He died in mid-July 1939, shortly before the start of the Second World War .

Together with his wife Franziska Mutzbauer he was buried in the forest cemetery in Berlin-Dahlem .