Leon Geršković

Who is Leon Geršković?

Dr. Leon Geršković was Croatian Jewish lawyer, legal scholar and politician.

Geršković was born in Bučje, Pleternica on February 2, 1910. He attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb and graduated in 1933. Since 1935, he was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Geršković was active member of the syndicate at the textile factory "Hermann Pollack & Sohn" in Zagreb. After graduation, Geršković worked as a lawyer, when in 1940 he opened his own private law office. Geršković joined the Partisans in 1941. In 1943, he became the first editor of Slobodna Dalmacija. From 1944, Geršković was the chief of administration at ZAVNOH. He was a recipient of the "Partizanska Spomenica 1941". Repeatedly he was the elected member of the SFR Yugoslavia National Assembly, state secretary at the federal executive council and member of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia. He was a university professor who taught constitutional law and the municipal system. Geršković was one of the founders of Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb in 1962, and its first dean until 1965. Also, he was a professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law.