Slight in stature, his preferences lay in the ball control, the game overview and the positional play.
In 1915, he began playing for Floridsdorfer Amateurs but after just three games he joined the Austrian Army and in May 1916 he was sent into battle during World War I.
He returned from the war wounded in 1917 and began playing with FK Austria Wien after his recovery, and helped them finish league runners up in 1920.
However, he returned to Vienna in October of that year to play amateur football but had to retire in Winter 1928 due to an illness that would later turn out to be leukaemia.
With Basel in the season 1932–33 he won the Schweizer Cup with three fellow Austrians, Ferdinand Wesely, Josef Chloupek and Otto Haftl, in the team.