In 1964, he studied at the Voroshilov Soviet Higher Military Academy.

He had been serving as a Deputy Minister of Defense of the Hungarian People's Army since 1966.

[3] In 1975, he was made a permanent member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

Conspiracy theories about his death arose has his death occurred at a time when the defense ministers of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and East Germany had also died within the same year.

It gave rise to assumptions by the media about a specially held action by the Western special services to eliminate the supporters of a forceful solution to the 1981 Polish hunger demonstrations.