Nikola "Niko" Hećimović, also Nicholas Hećimovića (26 November 1900 – 25 April 1929) was a Croatian communist organizer and secretary of the Yugoslav branch of International Red Aid. Hećimović was born to a middle-class family in Zagreb; his father was a school administrator. In 1919 Hećimović completed his education at the National Business Academy (Državnu Trgovačku Akademiju) in Zagreb. While in school he was attracted to the egalitarianism of communist doctrine, and became one of the early members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In 1919 he founded the newspaper Iskra which provided communist perspective on the news as well doctrinal education. He helped found the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ). In 1920 he went to Prague to study, but he returned to Zagreb the foll