Chemical engineer. While studying at Veszprém University of the Chemical Industry he was held on a conspiracy charge and sentenced on April 4, 1951 to six years' imprisonment. He was sent to Márianosztra and several times taken on convict work. Released on June 12, 1956, he found work in Budapest as a labourer. He joined the street fighting during the revolution and left the country on November 4, soon arriving in Britain, where he took a chemistry degree at Birmingham University. In 1961 he joined the British Gas research institute and was later a research engineer in a private firm, but in the mid-1980s he became a bus driver. He repatriated in 2003.