Segismundo Casado

Segismundo Casado López
Segismundo Casado
Birth name	Segismundo Casado López
Born	(1893-10-10)10 October 1893 Nava de la Asunción, Segovia, Spain
Died	18 December 1968(1968-12-18) (aged 75) Madrid, Spain
Allegiance	Spanish Republic
Service/branch	Spanish Republican Army
Rank	Colonel
Commands held	Commander of an Army Corps (1938), Commander of the Army of the Centre (1939)
Battles/wars	Spanish Civil War Siege of Madrid Battle of Jarama Battle of Brunete Final offensive
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Segismundo Casado López (10 October 1893 – 18 December 1968) was a Spanish Army officer; he served during the late Restoration, the Primo de Rivera dictatorship and the Second Spanish Republic. Following outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he sided with the Republicans, gradually rising to commander of the Army of the Centre. He is best known as leader of the coup against the government of Juan Negrín; its objectives were preventing a Communist takeover and terminating fratricidal bloodshed during the war, considered already lost. The rebels seized control of the Republican zone; in their quasi-government Casado served as the minister of defense. Negotiations with the Nationalists failed; Casado went on exile, first to Britain and from 1947 to Latin America, returning to Spain in 1961.