Slavko Komar was born in 1918 in Gospić. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. He became a member of SKOJ [Young Communist League of Yugoslavia] in 1937. He participated in numerous political actions that were organised in Zagreb during the Second World War. Because of his activities and his cooperation with the Communist Party, he very soon had to go underground. On August 4, 1941 he acted as the leader of one of the major actions by the Zagreb branch of SKOJ, known as the “Botanical Garden”, where an Ustaše squad was attacked in Runjaninova Street. Due to the fact that he’d been constantly monitored by the Ustaše regime in Zagreb, he joined the Partisans, as a member of “Matija Gubec” squad. In 1944 he was elected a member of the Presidency of the National Anti-Fascist Council of the People’s Liberation of Croatia. During and after the Second World War he held a series of important posts. He was an active participant in the agrarian and rural reforms in post-war Yugoslavia, as well as in the collectivisation of agriculture. He regards that part of his activities as his greatest contribution to the development of socialism. He was awarded the Order of the National Hero in 1952. He died aged 94 in Zagreb on 28 July 2012. He was interred in the Tomb of the People's Heroes on Mirogoj.