He learned the baking trade in Varazdin, then took a job at a bakery worker Zagreb. After the first World War II joined the labor movement and became a union activist. Often he was convicted and imprisoned in Sremska Mitrovica. He edited newspapers struggle and workers collaborated with leftist intellectuals Zagreb (Adžija B., O. Price, M. Schneider, V. Holjevac). In Ivanec he helped organize the mining strikes, was a member of the governing bodies of the Communist Party and Communist Party, a political action because eleven times convicted and imprisoned.
He died in Karlovac, as the organizer of the antifascist struggle for Kordun, Banovina, Gorski Kotar and the coast. He was posthumously declared a national hero. His birthplace in Vuglovec arranged as a museum.
Factory chocolates, candies and cookies in Zagreb today bears his name.