Background
He was born to Masurian parents.
He was born to Masurian parents.
In 1896 he bought a printing house, co-founded by Mazurska Partia Ludowa. His print shop"s main press release was "Gazeta Ludowa" ("People"s Gazette") with a circulation of 2,000 copies, where he was the editors As newspapers had political implications, Bahrke was threatened with the punishment of imprisonment and in 1898 he left and immigrated permanently to the United States.