Kurt Oskar Bark

Kurt Oskar Bark (born January 3, 1895 in Hermannsruhe , Strasburg district, Uckermark , † around 1952 in Goslar ) was a German writer and political activist.

Life and activity

From 1914 to 1918 Bark took part in the First World War, in which he achieved the rank of lieutenant. After the war Bark joined the Freikorps Roßbach , in which he temporarily acted as adjutant to the Freikorpsführer Gerhard Roßbach . From 1919 to 1921 he served as von Roßbach's adjutant. During this time, Bark and the Roßbach Freikorps took part in the Freikorps' march from West Prussia to Latvia, which lasted from October to December 1919, where the Freikorps took part in the Iron Division (an association that remained in the Baltic States after the end of the war in Thorensberg near Riga by the Latvian Independence Army) German troops) and fled back to the German Reich with them, as well as in the Kapp Putsch against the Republican government in March 1920, the suppression of the left workers' uprisings during the "Ruhr War" in April 1920 and the fighting between German and Polish volunteer organizations for the future state affiliation of Upper Silesia during the 3rd Upper Silesian Uprising in summer 1921.

Due to his journalistic skills, Bark also took on the role of editor of the official journal of the Rossbach organization Der Kamerad .

During the day of Coburg in 1922, Bark met Adolf Hitler, whom he was interested in the work of the former Roßbach organization, which contributed to the close cooperation between the successor organization of the formally dissolved Freikorps and the early NSDAP, which began in November 1922 manifested in the integration of the Bavarian Roßbach department led by Edmund Heines into the National Socialist Sturmabteilung.

In the further course of the 1920s, Bark worked as an editor for the nationalist weekly newspaper Schlesische Volksstimme in Breslau . During this time, in 1927 an investigation was conducted against him for anti-Semitic statements.

In the 1930s, Bark belonged to the staff of SA-Obergruppe III as SA-Sturmführer zbV under the SA-Commander for the province of Silesia (and former Roßbach-Mann) Edmund Heines.

In the 1930s, Bark published a number of souvenir books about his experiences with the Freikorps Roßbach such as Deutsche Wacht an der Weichsel and Roßbach's March into the Baltic States .

Fonts

• The act and its framework , in: The Heines process. A chapter of German distress , Munich 1929.
• German watch on the Vistula. Experiences , 1931
• SA Group Ostmark, Struggle and Development 1926–1933 , 1933.
• Roßbach's March into the Baltic States , in: Ernst von Salomon (ed.): Das Buch vom Freikorkskäpfer , Berlin 1938, pp. 202–206.

literature

• Carl Ludwig Lang (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographisches-Bibliographisches Handbuch , Vol. 1 (AAB-Bauer), 2011, column 585