Panel-beater. Deported from Békásmegyer to Billigheim, West Germany, in 1946 because of his family’s Swabian (Hungarian-German) origins. Labourer in a local brickworks. From 1960, panel-beater at NSU motor-cycle factory and later Audi car factory, becoming foreman in 1964. Regained Hungarian citizenship in 2000 and spends most of year in Hungary.