Ivan Ribar

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

Ivan Ribar studied at the University of Zagreb and Vienna and Prague law; 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, Josip Broz Tito until 1953 this took office.

His two sons fell in the Second World War; the younger of the two, Ivo Lola Ribar, the Chairman of the Communist youth organization, was posthumously declared a national hero.

After Ivan Ribar a residential area in the district of Belgrade Novi Beograd is named.