About Ivan Ribar
Ivan Ribar (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Рибар, pronounced [ǐvan rîbaːr]; 21 January 1881 – 2 February 1968) was a Croatian politician who served in several governments of various forms in Yugoslavia. Ideologically a Yugoslavist and communist, he was a prominent member of the Yugoslav Partisans, the resistance movement to the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. == Biography == Ribar was born in Vukmanić (modern-day Karlovac, Croatia) and held a PhD in law. He worked as an attorney in Zagreb, Đakovo and Belgrade. Ribar lost his entire family during World War II: his two sons, Ivo "Lola" and Jurica, and his wife Antonija. Both Ivo and Jurica were killed in action in 1943 fighting for the Partisans, while Ribar's wife was executed by the Germans in 1944. Ivo, his older son, was in charge of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) during the war, and was proclaimed posthumously a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. === Politics === In politics, he was: President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1920–22) President of Executive Committee, Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (26 October 1942 – 4 December 1943), President of the Presidency of the Provisional People's Assembly (4 December 1943 – 5 March 1945), President of the Presidency of the National Assembly (1 December 1945 – 14 January 1953) From the proclamation of a republic in 1945 until 1953, Ribar was the de jure head of state of Yugoslavia; his position as parliamentary speaker having been made constitutionally equivalent to that of a state president. In 1953, Communist Party leader and Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito, the country's de facto leader since 1945, was elected to the new post of President of the Republic, while the Presidency of the National Assembly was permanently dissolved. === Second marriage and death === Ribar spent his last years in Zagreb.
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