Ljubo Kojo
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Preceded byDane Olbina
Succeeded byLazo Materić
BornLjubomir Kojo
3 August 1920
3 August 1920
Died19 April 1993 (aged 72)
Ljubo Kojo Љубо Којо | |
|---|---|
 Kojo in 1955 | |
| 19th Mayor of Sarajevo | |
| In office 1955–1962 | |
| Preceded by | Dane Olbina |
| Succeeded by | Lazo Materić |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ljubomir Kojo 3 August 1920 |
| Died | 19 April 1993 (aged 72) |
| Party | Communist League of Yugoslavia |
| Alma mater | University of Sarajevo |
Ljubomir "Ljubo" Kojo (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Љубо Којо; 3 August 1920 – 19 April 1993) was a Yugoslav politician who served as the 19th mayor of Sarajevo from 1955 to 1962.[1]
Kojo was born into a prominent Bosnian Serb family on 3 August 1920 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was then a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He received his high school education in the Sarajevo Academy of Commerce. With the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and the formation of the NDH puppet state in 1941, he joined the Yugoslav Partisans. After being gravely wounded in battle, he was transferred to a military hospital in Bari, Italy where he recovered on the eve of the liberation of Sarajevo.[2]
