Premrl was born on 29 February 1920 in
Podnanos, at that time in
Italy (now in
Slovenia). He was the firstborn child in an ethnically conscious
Slovene family. His uncle
Stanko Premrl was a Roman Catholic priest, and well-known
composer and
organist, composer of the melody for the
national anthem of Slovenia. Another of his uncles was a major in the armed forces of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Premrl attended a secondary business school in
Gorizia, Premrl served in the Italian army from 1940 to 1941. In January 1942 the noncommissioned officer and leader of a Slovene circle,
Ivan Kosovel (1912–1943), obtained sick leave papers On 20 August the prefect of Gorizia,
Aldo Cavani, issued a warrant for his arrest and placed a 50,000 lira bounty on his head. When the Simon Gregorčič Brigade was established, Premrl was named its deputy commandant, and he became the commander of the Upper Vipava Company, and then the Trnovo Company. In the second half of September 1942 he and his company encamped at
Črni Vrh, first near Gornje Griže and then at Brin Hill (). From this position the company was able to observe the
Trnovo Forest Plateau (). Because the camp was well hidden, they remained there six months. On 13 February 1943 the Headquarters of the Littoral Operations Zone named Premrl commandant of the Andrej Laharnar 1st Littoral Partisan Brigade. Because of Premrl’s death soon after and the engagement of units recruiting volunteers in central Slovenia, this brigade was never actually formed. Although a doctor was requested, Premrl only received instructions from
Idrija for medical treatment, and so his condition worsened. Premrl died of his injuries on 22 February 1943. Premrl was named a
people's hero of Yugoslavia at the second
AVNOJ conference in the
Bosnian town of
Jajce, held from 21 to 29 November 1943. == Legacy ==