Ivo Lola Ribar

He was a Yugoslav communist politician and military leader of Croatian descent. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest collaborators of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party. In 1936, he became secretary of the Central Committee of the young Communist League of Yugoslavia). During the World War II in Yugoslavia, Ribar was among the main leaders of the Yugoslav Partisans and was a member of the Partisans' Supreme Command. During the war, he founded and run several leftist youth magazines. In 1942, he was among the founders of the Unified League of Anti-Fascist Youth of Yugoslavia. He was killed by a German bomb in 1943 near Glamoè while boarding an airplane for Cairo, where he was to become the first representative of Communist Yugoslavia to the Middle East Command. In 1944 he was awarded the title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Lola was the older of two sons by Ivan Ribar, first President of Yugoslavia.