Leon Geršković

Leon Geršković (2 February 1910 – 1 June 1992 ) was a Croatian-Jewish lawyer, legal scholar, newspaper editor, professor, and politician.

Biography Geršković was born in Bučje, Pleternica on 2 February 1910. He attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb and graduated in 1933. From 1935, he was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Geršković was an 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. He was a recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941.

Works Documents on the Development of the National Government (, 1946) The History of the National Government (, 1950) The Science of Administration (, 1951) Social Management in Yugoslavia (, 1957) Basics of the Legal System in Joint Work (, 1972) Constitutional Themes (, 1976) The Socialist Community of Labor (, 1976)