Erling Falk was a Norwegian politician, ideologist and writer.
13 Facts About Erling Falk
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Erling Falk was active in the Norwegian Students' Society, the Norwegian Labour Party and the Communist Party, but is best known as a leading figure in the group Mot Dag, who issued a periodical of the same name.
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Erling Falk was born in Hemnesberget as the son of Jonas Cornelius Falk and Anna Margrethe Middelthon.
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Erling Falk had joined Kristiania Arbeidersamfund and the Norwegian Students' Society after moving to Norway, and was a member of the Norwegian Labour Party.
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The Comintern did not take lightly to this, and Erling Falk was present to discuss the issue at the 3rd Enlarged Plenum of Executive Committee of the Communist International in June 1923.
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Erling Falk remained with the Labour Party for some time, but was excluded from the party in 1925.
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Erling Falk then formed the group Arbeideropposisjonen, but it too was excluded, and became short-lived.
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In 1926 Mot Dag and Erling Falk joined the Communist Party.
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Erling Falk was a member of the party's central board, and had influence in the newspaper Norges Kommunistblad.
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Erling Falk influenced the founding of the short-lived party Arbeiderklassens Samlingsparti.
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Around the same time Erling Falk lost influence in the Norwegian Students' Society, due to having embezzled money from a construction fund reserve.
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One day before the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, Erling Falk left the country for Stockholm to undergo brain surgery.
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Erling Falk had two surgeries, but died on 31 July 1940.