Ivan Ribar ( sr-cyr, Иван Рибар, ; 21 January 1881 – 2 February 1968) was a Croatian politician who served in several governments of various forms in

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. Ideologically a Yugoslavist and

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, he was a prominent member of the

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, the resistance movement to the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia.

Biography

Ribar was born in

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(part of

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) and held a PhD in law. He worked as an attorney in

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and

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. Ribar lost his entire family during

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: 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

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(SKOJ) during the war, and was proclaimed posthumously a

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.Ivan Ribar profile
, gimnazija-karlovac.hr; accessed 12 July 2015.

Politics

In politics, he was: President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1920–22) President of Executive Committee,

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(26 October 1942 – 4 December 1943), Chairman of the Presidium of the Provisional People's Assembly (4 December 1943 – 5 March 1945), Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (29 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 was constitutionally made equivalent to that of president. In 1953, Communist Party leader and

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Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito ( ; , ), was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 unti ...

, the country's ''de facto'' leader since 1945, was elected to the new post of President of the Republic.

Second marriage and death

Ribar spent his last years in Zagreb. In 1952 he married painter and poet Cata Dujšin-Ribar and moved into her flat on 3 Demeter Street. He died in 1968, aged 87. In 1976, his widow donated their flat and their art collection to the city of Zagreb. The art collection is exhibited at the Demeter Street flat, which is open to public. As of 2021, the flat is temporarily closed due to damage from the

2020 Zagreb earthquake At approximately 6:24 AM Central European Time, CET on the morning of 22 March 2020, an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 , 5.5 , hit Zagreb, Croatia, with an epicenter north of the city centre. The maximum felt intensity was VII–VIII (''Very stro ...

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