On 7 January 1921, he resigned his position and he was replaced by Johannes Vanja.
From 1905 until 1911, he was manor worker, from 1911 until 1912, he worked as a laborer at the Dvigatel metal factor in Tallinn and the A. M. Luther factory and as a lathe apprentice at F. Wiegand's machine factory.
From 1914 until 1921, he worked at the Tallinn Port Factories as a lathe operator.
He was elected to I Riigikogu I on the list of the Central Council of Trade Unions in Tallinn (deputy chairman of the Central Council of Trade Unions in Tallinn), but immediately resigned.
In 1929, he was arrested once again for embezzlement and served a nearly year-long prison sentence.