Football player and bank clerk of Jewish origin.

He was born in Nowa Wieś Szlachecka near Kraków, died in Warsaw.

In the years 1907-1914 he studied at the St. John's High School in Krakow. Anna, he passed his secondary school leaving examination in 1918.

During World War I, as an Austrian subject, he served in the army on the Serbian and Italian fronts. In November 1918, he joined the Polish army and fought in the Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Bolshevik wars.

From 1910, he belonged to the Cracovia sports club, representing Poland at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. Effectively working with Ludwik Gintel, he co-created the best Polish defender duo.

He fought in the September Campaign and belonged to the Home Army. In the fall of 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo and was probably executed after being arrested in the ghetto (although according to other accounts, he was said to have died during the Warsaw Uprising).