He reached second place at the 1936 Vuelta a España behind his brother Gustaaf, and won the 1938 Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

Their father worked as a farmhand during the season, and in the coal mines of Hainaut otherwise.

The family lived in De Klinge, a small Flemish town near the border with the Netherlands.

[2] In 1934, he ended in second place in the Volta a Catalunya, where he won the second stage, and third in the Tour of Belgium.

His career was brutally ended by the Second World War, and afterwards he became a crane driver, mainly working on building and maintaining dykes.