Josif Pashko

Josif Pashko (May 25, 1918 - September 5, 1963) was an Albanian politician during the country's socialist period.

Biography

Josif Pashko was born into a peasant family in the village of Vodica, Kolonja. In 1938 he graduated from the Normal School at Elbasan and served as an elementary school teacher in that town from 1939-42. Together with his father Pashko Vodica he joined the communist-led resistance to Italian occupation in 1942, becoming a political commissar of various brigades.

After the war he was involved in the armed forces, security and judicial organs. From 1950 onwards he was a deputy in the People's Assembly. From 1954 until his death he was a government minister in charge of construction.

During the war he joined the Communist Party of Albania (Party of Labour of Albania after 1948) and became a member of its Central Committee in 1952.

His son Gramoz Pashko was an economist who co-founded the Democratic Party of Albania in 1990.

References

• Skendi, Stavro (ed). Albania. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. 1956. p. 338.