Paul Olberg

Paul Olberg

Paul Olberg (originally Hirsch Schmuschkowitz ; born November 22, 1878 in Jakobstadt , Kurland Governorate , † May 4, 1960 in Stockholm ) was a Livonian Menshevik from Jakobstadt (today Jēkabpils). In the 1920s he worked in Berlin , where he fled from Russia after the October Revolution in 1917 , among other things as a correspondent for the Swedish Social Democrats . After 1933 he stayed in Stockholm as a political refugee.

His older son Valentin Olberg was sentenced to death in the first Moscow show trial in 1936 , and his younger son Paul was shot dead by the NKVD in the same year.

Works

• Letters from Soviet Russia . JHW Dietz Nachf., 1919
• Development of the revolutionary and socialist movement in Russia . In: Ignaz Jezower (ed.): The liberation of humanity. Ideas of freedom in the past and present. Bong, Berlin 1921
• The peasant revolution in Russia. The old and the new policy of Soviet Russia. Published by CL Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1922
• The Red Union International and the European Union Movement. Publishing company of the German Metalworkers Association, Stuttgart 1930
• The tragedy of the Baltic region. The annexation of the free republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Europa-Verlag, Zurich-New York 1941 (Published by the famous Exil-Verlag Emil Oprechts .)
• Det moderna Egyptet i det andra världskriget. Stockholm: Bokforlaget Natur och Kultur 1943
• Antisemitism i Sovjet. Swedish Judaica. Nature and Culture, Stockholm 1953

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Olberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paul Olberg and the first Swedish Ossietzky activities

literature

• Blomqvist, Håkan: The Sea of ​​Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender . Ed .: Götz, Norbert (=  Södertörn Academic Studies . No. 60 ). Södertörn University, 2014, ISBN 978-91-87843-00-6 , ISSN  1650-433X , Lost Worlds of Labor: Paul Olberg, the Jewish Labor Bund, and Menshevik Socialism, p. 139–172 (English, diva-portal.org [PDF]).
• Enerud, Per: Den farligaste av flyktingar: Paul Olberg - antinazist, anticommunist och dissident i folkhemmet . Carlssons, Stockholm 2017, ISBN 978-91-7331-817-4 (Swedish).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gravestone for Paul Olberg.
2. ↑ Nekrolog see: Sozialistitscheskij vestnik. 1960. No. 5 (741).
3. ↑ Biographical information on Valentin Olberg from the Handbuch der Deutschen Kommunisten
4. ↑ Trial report on the criminal case of the Trotskyist-Zinovievist terrorist center. Evening session of August 20, 1936. Interrogation of the defendant Olberg ( memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.