Paul Olberg

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Paul Olberg (born Hirsch Schmuschkowitz; 22 November 1878 – 4 May 1960) was a Latvian-born journalist who became German-Swedish and a Menshevik. After the 1917 October Revolution, he fled to Berlin, where he lived for many years and wrote for Swedish social democratic newspapers. In 1933 he escaped to Stockholm and became secretary of the Socialist Rescue Committee for German Refugees. He served as the Scandinavian representative of the Jewish Labor Committee and led its Stockholm office, coordinating postwar refugee aid in Scandinavia from 1945. In 1957 he was on the coordinating committee of the International Jewish Labor Bund.