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Franc Leskošek
Franc Leskošek in 1959
Secretary of the League of Communists of Slovenia
In office 1937–1945
Preceded by	Position Established
Succeeded by	Boris Kidrič
Personal details
Born	9 December 1897 Celje, Austria-Hungary
Died	5 July 1993(1993-07-05) (aged 95) Ljubljana, PR Slovenia, Yugoslavia
Political party	League of Communists

Frank Leskošek (nom de guerre Luka; 9 December 1897 – 5 July 1983) was a Yugoslav politician and partisan commander.

Biography

Born in Celje, Slovenia, Leskošek worked as a locksmith in his youth. He was drafted in to the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and fought mostly in the Isonzo Front. After the war he returned to his hometown and became active in the trade union movement and participated in many strikes.

Leskošek joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) and in 1926 and became a member of its Central Committee in 1934. He was secretary of the Association of Metalworkers for Slovenia and chairman of the expert commission of the United Workers' Trade Unions of Slovenia. During this period he successfully hid his KPJ membership from Yugoslav authorities.

In 1935 he traveled to the Soviet Union alongside Edvard Kardelj and became a functionary in the Communist International and was appointed a member of the Politburo of the KPJ in 1936 in a conference held in Moscow. After the appointment of Josip Tito as the general secretary of the KPJ, Leskošek became one of the leading members of the party. In the fourth congress of the Communist Party of Slovenia, he was elected the first secretary of the party.

During the final elections in Yugoslavia he participated as a member of the United Opposition. After 1940 he avoided arrest by retiring the KPJ in time. He resumed his illegal activities and was once again elected to KPJ leadership.

After the creation of the Slovene Partisan units Leskošek was appointed commander of its main staff. After the war and communist take over of Yugoslavia he remained first secretary of the KPS until 1945 and was also president of the Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovene Nation.

He was Minister of Industry and Mining in the  first Slovenian government. From 1948 to 1951 he was the Federal Yugoslav Minister of Heavy Industry. From 1951 to 1953 he was chairman of the Council for Industrialization of Slovenia, then until 1958 he was a member of the executive committee of the National Group of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FNRJ). From 1958 to 1963 he was vice-chairman of the People's Group of the FNRJ and from 1963 he was a member of the Federation Council. From 1945 to 1963 he was a member of the Slovenian group and from 1946 to 1953 and 1958 to 1963 of the federal group.

He was a member of the executive committee of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Slovenia (ÚV SKS) from 1956 to 1966 and then (1966 to 1968) he was a member of the presidency of ÚV SKS. Until 1964 he was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (ÚV SKJ) and until 1969 a member of the ÚV SKJ. From 1953 he was a member of the Main Department of the Socialist Union of Working People (SSRN) of Yugoslavia and from 1967 he was a member of the presidency of the Slovenian Republican Conference of the SSRN.

Leskošek died in Ljubljana on 5 July 1983.

References

1. ^ "LESKOŠEK , Franc". Obrazi slovenskih pokrajin (in Slovenian). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
2. ^ "Franc Leskošek Luka, častni občan občine Kamnik". www.kamnik.si. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
3. Bjeloš, Nenad (2002). Odlikovani Slovenci 1944-1950. v Vojnozgodovinski zbornik št. 9. Logatec.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

v t e Members of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
5th term (1948–1952)	Đilas Gošnjak Kardelj Kidrič Leskošek Nešković Pijade Ranković Tito
6th term (1952–1958)	Bakarić Đilas Gošnjak Kardelj Kidrič Koliševski Leskošek Pijade Pucar Ranković Salaj Tito Vukmanović
7th term (1958–1964)	Bakarić Gošnjak Jovanović Kardelj Koliševski Leskošek Marinko Pucar Ranković Salaj Stambolić Tito Veselinov Vlahović Vukmanović
8th term (1964–1969)	1964–1966 Bakarić Crvenkovski Gošnjak Jovanović Kardelj Koliševski Krajger Marinko Mijatović Pajković Pucar Ranković Špiljak Stambolić Tito Todorović Veselinov Vlahović Vukmanović 1966–1969 Bakarić Blažević Crvenkovski Dabčević-Kučar Dugonjić Gošnjak Hodža Humo Jovanović Karabegović Kardelj Kolak Koliševski Krajger Maček Marinko Mijatović Pajković Petrović K. Popović M. Popović V. Popović Pucar Radosavljević Sekulić Šentjurc Smilevski Šoti Špiljak Stambolić Temelkovski Tito Veselinov Vlahović Vukmanović
9th term (1969–1974)	Members Avramović Bakarić Baltić Belovski Bijelić Bilić Blažević Borojević Crvenkovski Ćulafić Deželjin Dizdarević Dobardžić Dolanc Dolničar Doronjski Dugonjić Gaži Georgijeva Gligorov Hafner Hodža Kardelj Kavčič Kelemen Knežević Koliševski Krajger Kranjc Kreso Kurtović Liker Ljubičić Mesihović Midžić Mihaljević Mijatović Milosavlevski Nađ Pečujlić Pečenović Perović Petrovski Popović Pozderac Ramadani Ribičič Šarac Šefer Šiljegović Široka Šoškić Stambolić Stanojević Tepavac Todorović Tripalo Tomić Vlahović Vujadinović Žarković Zulfićari Ex-officio Alimpić Bakalli Čanadanović Čemerski Dabčević-Kučar Deva Đuranović Mikulić Nikezić Planinc Popit Tepavac Tito Vlaškalić
10th term (1974–1978)	Members Albreht Bakarić Balint Baltić Bijedić Bilić Ćulafić Dolanc Doronjski Dugonjić Đuranović Gligorov Grličkov Hodža Kardelj Koliševski Kukoč Kurtović Ljubičić Markovski Mesihović Mijatović Milatović Minić Petrović D. Popović M. Popović Ravnik Ristić Smole Špiljak Srzentić Stambolić Stavrev Šukrija Vidić Vlahović Vrhovec Vujadinović Žarković Ex-officio Alimpić Bakalli Čemerski Đuranović Planinc Popit Stojanović Tito Vlaškalić
11th term (1978–1982)	Members Alimpić Bakarić Ćulafić Dolanc Doronjski Dragosavac Đuranović Grličkov Hodža Kardelj Koliševski Marinc Marković Mijatović Mikulić Minić Petrović Popović Minić Mojsov Pozderac Stambolić Žarković Ex-officio Alimpić Bakalli Čemerski Deva Krunić Planinc Popit Pozderac Srzentić Stojanović Tito Vlaškalić
12th term (1982–1986)	Members Bakarić Bilić Belovski Dragosavac Hadživasilev Herljević Kučan Marković Matić Milatović Pozderac Radović Ribičič Stojanović Šukrija Vidić Žarković Ex-officio Andrić Bilić Čkrebić Ćuić Ćulafić Dolašević Đuričin Hasani Jovičić Krunić Kurteši Marinc Markovski Orlandić Pančevski Pozderac Široka Špiljak Stambolić Stojšić Veselinov Vllasi Vrhovec Žarković
13th term (1986–1990)	Members Brigić Čkrebić Gačić Grbović Korošec Krunić Muževič Orlandić Pančevski Racan Radmilović Renovica Šetinc Široka Škundrić Šuvar Tupurkovski Uzelac Varosha Varošlija Vukotić Vukotić Žarković Zejnullahu Ex-officio Bulatović Duraković Gošev Jashari Jovičić Kolgeci Kovačević Kučan Lazaroski Milošević Morina Mutapčić Pejanović Račan Radović Ribičič Šogorov Šimić Šipovac Stojčević Stojšić Trifunović Uzelac Vllasi

• 1897 births
• 1983 deaths
• Slovenian communists
• Slovenian people of World War II
• Yugoslav Partisans members
• Ethnic Slovene people
• League of Communists of Yugoslavia politicians
• League of Communists of Slovenia politicians
• Yugoslav expatriates in the Soviet Union
• Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero
• Members of the Politburo of the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
• Members of the Executive Committee of the 6th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
• Members of the Executive Committee of the 7th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
• Members of the Central Committee of the 4th Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
• Members of the Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
• Members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
• Members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
• Members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia