Dr. Leon Geršković (2 February 1910 – 1 April 1992) was a Croatian Jewish lawyer, legal scholar and politician. 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. 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 Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941. Repeatedly he was the elected member of th