Paul Olberg
Paul Olberg, 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.
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.
