Franc Rozman was born in the Carniolan village of Spodnje Pirniče[2] near Ljubljana, part of Austria-Hungary at the time, to a Slovene working-class family.

His father Franc Rozman was a railway track-worker, while his mother Marjana (née Stare) was a housewife.

At the age of three, Rozman's father died on the Eastern Front, where he fought as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

He was given the task of setting up the Styrian Battalion (Štajerski bataljon), which would consist of the partisan troops, the Revirje and the Savinja companies (Revirske in Savinjske čete), which were active in Styria in the autumn of 1941.

[citation needed] Rozman died on 7 November 1944, aged 33, in White Carniola as a consequence of a serious wound received while testing newly arrived PIAT weapons sent to the partisans by their British Allies.

There were some rumors that he was killed by sabotage by the Chetnik military authorities or at the behest of Partisan commander Arso Jovanović,[4] but they have never been proven.

[1] "Commander Stane", as he was nicknamed by the partisan fighters, was one of the most prominent figures of the Yugoslav front of the Second World War.