Paul Olberg

Paul Olberg.

Paul Olberg (born: Hirsch Schmuschkowitz, 22 November 1878 – 4 May 1960) 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

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.

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.