He spent most of his career in Warta Poznań, which was one of the best teams in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s, winning the league in 1929 and finishing second in 1928 and 1938.

He participated in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin,[3] where Poland finished fourth, playing in a 3–0 win over Hungary and a 5–4 victory over Great Britain, suffering an injury in the latter match which ruled him out of the remainder of the tournament.

[7] Among those Poles he helped were goalkeeper of Warta, Marian Fontowicz (captured by Wehrmacht during the Polish September Campaign), wife of Zbigniew Szulc, another Warta's goalie (German authorities planned to send her to Germany as OST-Arbeiter), Warta's forward Bolesław Gendera (arrested for playing football), and Michał Flieger, with whom he won the national title in 1929.

Wounded in January 1945 in Yugoslavia, at the end of the war he was captured as POW by British soldiers.

He was released on 25 July 1945 and found a new home in West Berlin, where he opened a furniture store.