# Valentin Olberg

> Valentin Pavlovich Olberg was a Latvian-born Jewish, Russian, and German Communist, member of the Communist Party of Germany, activist of the Trotskyist opposition and history teacher at the Gorky Pedagogical Institute. He was arrested by the secret police of the Soviet Union, the NKVD, in January 1936 and became a main defendant in the first Moscow Trial in August. His testimony played an important role in the arrests and executions of oppositionists in the USSR during the Great Purges.

*Russian-German Trotskyist (1907-1936)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** Russia
- **Born:** 1907
- **Died:** 1936-08-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Valentin Pavlovich Olberg was a Latvian-born Jewish, Russian, and German Communist, member of the Communist Party of Germany, activist of the Trotskyist opposition and history teacher at the Gorky Pedagogical Institute. He was arrested by the secret police of the Soviet Union, the NKVD, in January 1936 and became a main defendant in the first Moscow Trial in August. His testimony played an important role in the arrests and executions of oppositionists in the USSR during the Great Purges.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 42.9
- **Momentum:** 10.0

## Sources
- [Valentin Olberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Olberg)
- [Ольберг, Валентин Павлович](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Valentin Olberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Olberg)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19886154)

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