Paul Olberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Olberg

journalist

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1878

Place of Birth: Jēkabpils, Courland Governorate, Latvia

Date of Death: 04-May-1960

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Paul Olberg (1878–1960), born in Jekabpils, 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. 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.