 While still a student, participated in the Revolution of 1930, when he was wounded during the assault on the headquarters of the Third Army, Rua da Praia, in Porto Alegre, on October 3.Due to injury, he lost a leg and started using a mechanical prosthesis.In 1932, he graduated from the Law School of Porto Alegre, which now belongs to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he was later Professor of Constitutional Law.