Viktor Avbelj

Viktor Avbelj, nom de guerre Rudi (February 26, 1914 – April 6, 1993), was a Yugoslav Partisan and Slovenian politician. He was a member of the League of Communists of Slovenia.

As a student, he joined the Communist Party in 1937. From September to December 1942, he was the first political commissar of the Gubec Brigade, and afterwards the political commissar of the 1st operational zone, and from July 1943, the 15th division. In July 1943, while observing the enemy's positions near Selah pri Šumberk, he narrowly escaped death in a shelling. From September 1944 to March 1945, he was the political commissar of the 9th Corps of the NOVJ, and then until May 1945 the political commissar of the Main Staff of the NOV and POS and the Slovenian representative at the 4th Army of the Yugoslav Army. He was a recipient of the Order of the People's Hero, along with other honors for his Partisan activities during WWII.