Ljubo Kojo

Ljubomir "Ljubo" Kojo (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Којо; 3 August 1920 – 19 April 1993) was a Bosnian and Yugoslav politician who served as the 19th mayor of Sarajevo from 1955 to 1962.

[1] He was born into a prominent Serb family on 3 August 1920 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was then a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

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] After returning to the city he was named Administrator of the People's goods, an institution set-up after the war to ration food and basic utilities.