Under the Hungarian Soviet Republic he joined the Red Army, on the order of Aurél Stromfeld, who was the commander of the Ludovica Military Academy before the revolution.

In 1942 he was promoted to Colonel and continued to serve at the General Staff as the adjutant and secretary to the Defence Minister Vilmos Nagy.

In 1945, he became the military leader of the Ministry of Defence in the Interim government of General Béla Miklós.

He was the eldest member of that parliament and, in line with the tradition, he was the honorary chairman of the founding session of the new, democratically elected National Assembly.

He became the member of the Home Defence Committee and he died one day before the end of the National Assembly's term, in 1994.