 During the Second World War, he served as a delegate at the Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovenian Nation in Kočevje.From 1944 to 1945 he was a committee member of the Research Institute of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian Nation, the main role of which was to research and define the postwar borders of Slovenia.After the war, on 24 July 1946, he married Nives Polak and they had one son and two daughters.