Paul Olberg

Paul Olberg (1878–1960), born in Jēkabpils, Latvia, was a Latvian-born German-Swedish journalist and a Menshevik. In 1917, after the October Revolution, went into exile in Berlin, where he lived for many years. He worked as a correspondent for Swedish social democratic newspapers. In 1933, he fled to Stockholm; that year, he became Secretary of the Stockholm-based Socialist Rescue Committee for German Refugees.

Karl Kautsky with the Georgian Social-Democrats, Tbilisi, 1920.
In the first row: S. Devdariani, Noe Ramishvili, Noe Zhordania, Karl Kautsky and his wife Luise, Silibistro Jibladze, Razhden Arsenidze;
in the second row: Kautsky's secretary Olberg, Victor Tevzaia, K. Gvarjaladze, Konstantine Sabakhtarashvili, S. Tevzadze, Avtandil Urushadze, R. Tsintsabadze

Paul Olberg.

Olberg was Scandinavian representative of the Jewish Labor Committee, and headed the JLC's Stockholm office; from 1945, he coordinated the JLC's postwar services to refugees in Scandinavia.

In 1957 Olberg was a member of the coordinating committee of the International Jewish Labor Bund.[1]

Bibliography

• Briefe aus Sowjet-Russland, 1919
• Die Bauernrevolution in Russland: Die alte und die neue Politik Sowjet-Russlands, 1922
• Die Tragödie des Baltikums: Die Annexion der freien Republiken Estland, Lettland und Litauen, 1941
• Det moderna Egypten i det andra världskriget, Natur & Kultur, 1943
• Antisemitism i Sovjet, Natur & Kultur, 1953

Further reading

• Blomqvist, Håkan (2014). "Lost Worlds of Labour: Paul Olberg, the Jewish Labour Bund, and Menshevik Socialism". In Götz, Norbert (ed.). The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender (PDF). Södertörn academic studies, 60. Huddinge: Södertörn University. pp. 139–172. ISBN 978-91-87843-00-6. ISSN 1650-433X.
• Enerud, Per (2017). Den farligaste av flyktingar: Paul Olberg – antinazist, antikommunist och dissident i folkhemmet (in Swedish). Stockholm: Carlssons. ISBN 978-91-7331-817-4.

References

1. Hertz, Jacob Sholem (1958). Unser Tsayṭ (ed.). Der Bund in bilder, 1897-1957 (in Yiddish and English). New York.