Ivan Ribar

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Ivan Ribar (left) with Tito

Ivan Ribar ( Cyrillic  Иван Рибар ; born January 21, 1881 in Vukmanić , south of Karlovac ; † June 11, 1968 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav politician.

Ivan Ribar studied law at the University of Zagreb as well as in Vienna and Prague ; he received his doctorate in Zagreb in 1904. From 1920 to 1922 he was President of the Yugoslav Parliament. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party. From 1943 he was President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until Josip Broz Tito took over this office in 1953 .

His two sons died in World War II ; the younger of the two, Ivo Lola Ribar , who was the chairman of the communist youth organization, was posthumously declared a national hero.

A residential area in the Belgrade district of Novi Beograd is named after Ivan Ribar .

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