Ivo Lola Ribar

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Ivo Lola Ribar (April 23, 1916 - November 27, 1943), was a Croatian communist politician in Yugoslavia.

Ivo Lola Ribar was born in Đakovo and graduated law at the University of Belgrade. During his studies he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and since 1937 led the Youth Commission, and he travelled around Europe visiting Communist conferences (Bruxelles 1935, Geneva 1936, Paris 1937).

In 1940 the Royal Yugoslav authorities incarcerated him in Bihać for being a communist, and later in the year he was put in charge of the League of Young Communists of Yugoslavia (SKOJ). When the Second World War started in Yugoslavia, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Party and soon joined the Supreme Command of the Partisans, where he worked with Tito and Edvard Kardelj on the plans for resistance.

In October 1943, Lola Ribar was named as the chief of the first Partisan military mission to the Mediterranean Allied Command. However, just before embarking on an airplane trip to Cairo, he died in Glamočko polje in southwestern Bosnia. He was posthumously proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

Ribar's father Ivan Ribar held important offices in both the prewar Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the postwar Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

A brand of scooters was named after him. The Ivo Lola Ribar Institute in Belgrade is named after him.